Literature

Spotify adds more AI-generated audiobooks

New York — Spotify on Thursday began accepting audiobooks narrated by digital voices created by artificial intelligence software firm... Read more

21 Feb

Johannesburg – Breyten Breytenbach, who died on Sunday, was one of South Africa’s most honoured writers, who found beauty... Read more

25 Nov, 2024

New York – Paul Auster, the prolific American novelist whose works included “The New York Trilogy,” has died of... Read more

1 May, 2024

Dar Es Salaam – The Tanzanian government has banned a popular series of children’s books from schools in the... Read more

15 Feb, 2023

Mogadishu – Award-winning Somali poet Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame, better-known by his pen name Hadraawi, died Thursday aged 79, prompting... Read more

19 Aug, 2022

Harare – Award-winning Zimbabwean author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga will go on trial next week for inciting violence after... Read more

4 Aug, 2022

Harare – Zimbabwe has issued an arrest warrant for award-winning author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga after she failed to... Read more

28 Jun, 2022

Kampala – Ugandan author and human rights activist, Norman Tumuhimbise, has been arrested ahead of his book launch, his lawyer... Read more

12 Mar, 2022

Cape Town – Books, artwork and antique writing instruments fill Damon Galgut’s apartment in Cape Town, yet his Booker... Read more

9 Dec, 2021

Johannesburg – Internationally acclaimed author Wilbur Smith died at his home in South Africa on Saturday after a decades-long... Read more

14 Nov, 2021