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The Tet New Year in Vietnam falls on 9 February 2013. Most people hope for change and improvement during the New Year. We live in taxing times. The economic turmoil in some countries showed few signs of real recovery. The wars in other countries ...

In 1957, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to the French writer, Albert Camus. But winning the Prize did not bring him fame and success. He did not continue to write in the genre he was well known for – the novel and the essay. Ins...

“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, nor yet a dry, bare, sand hole: it was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort.” These were the opening lines of “The Hobbit.” The publicat...

In 1956, Yukio Mihsima had achieved his lifelong ambition to become a writer. He had to overcome various obstacles to do so, not the least of which was his father’s strenuous objections. Two years later, he would marry and eventually have t...

What kind of mother was Enid Blyton? When the Chinese New Year celebrations commence on 3 February this year, Chinese families worldwide will be having their annual family reunions. Perhaps this would be an appropriate time for us to look at r...

“The winter of our discontent” In the winter of 1993, a recently divorced mother sat at  Nicolson’s Café in Edinburgh, Scotland, feverishly writing a book while her one year old baby daughter slept quietly in a pr...

Beckett’s Last Tape:“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new” (from “Murphy”) The master of the Theater of the Absurd died on 22 December 1989 at the grand old age of 83.The official record n...