France's President Emmanuel Macron is urging Algeria to free an 80-year-old writer who was sentenced on Tuesday to five years ...

The prosecution of Boualem Sansal, who is around 80, prompted outrage from the global literary community and pleas from ...

Sansal was arrested in November 2024 at Algiers airport. French President Macron has called on Algeria to release the ...

Lit fests across India are bridging the gap between the reader and writer and giving a platform to regional writers and their ...

Signatories of the letter include the Nobel Prize winners Annie Ernaux, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Peter Sloterdjik, Roberto Saviano and Wole Soyinka. The letter ...

How a cartoon crisis transformed a local debate into a global reckoning over censorship and religious sensitivities – one ...

In a Q&A, author David Sheff talks about his new Yoko Ono biography and his hopes of disproving the popular narrative that ...

His case has sparked a wave of support from intellectuals and politicians, including Nigerian Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka, Indian-British novelist Salman Rushdie and French officials.