Introducing Peter Handke Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director and screen writer .He was born in 6 December 1947 in Griffen in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Handke also wrote short stories, essays, radio dramas and autobiographical works. Through his works, Handke explores everyday reality and their accompanying rational order with their constraining and underlying irrationality, confusion, and even madness. He has been conferred the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.’ He has also received many other awards including the George Buchner Prize in 1973 and the Austrian Theatre Prize for life time achievement in 2018. Introducing a few works by Peter Handke: 1) Offending the Audience :  A play. It is sometimes called an 'anti-play' because of its renouncement of theatricality. It was originally publis...

Introducing Olga Tokarczuk  On October 10, 2019, the Swedish Academy announced the winners of Nobel Prize in literature for the years 2018 and 2019. Tokarczuk, a writer and public intellectual from Poland won the 2018 award while Peter Handke, an Austrian playwright and scriptwriter has been conferred the 2019 award.  Olga Tokerczuk is a Polish writer. She was born in 1962 in Sulechow, Poland. She is the author of nine novels and several collections of short-stories and essays. In her works she often deals with the lives at the periphery of society, idea of making roots and home at a new place and sometimes her imagination even evolves toward mythological tales. She portrays a multilingual and religiously plural Poland in her novels which totally opposes the far right ideas of Poland's contemporary toxic political scenario. For this she has faced several death threats. She has been conferred the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature for ' a narrative imagination that...

Introducing Sylvia Plath  Sylvia Plath was an American confessional poet. She was born on October 27, 1932 and she died on February 11, 1963. In her works she expressed a sense of alienation and feeling of self-destruction, closely related to her personal life. She was married to the famous English poet Ted Hughes. She suffered from bipolar disorder.  Source:  Scoopwhoop Introducing Briefly Her Major Works:  1) The Colossus and Other Poems: A famous poetry collection. It contains her famous poem 'The Quieting Muses'. The poem is based on a painting by Giorgio di Chirico, an Italian artist who founded the Scuola Metafisica Art Movement that later influenced the Surrealists. The poem is addressed to her mother and the three muses there represent the twentieth century parents.  2) The Bell Jar: A semi-autobiographical novel written under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The protagonist is Esther Greenwood, a young woman who wants to bec...

Introducing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian author whose works include novels, short stories and works of non-fiction.   She was born on September 15, 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria. She was the fifth of six children of her parents. In her early days, she was highly influenced by the fellow Nigerian author Chinua Achebe , more specifically by his work Things Fall Apart . In her works, she extensively deals with the Nigerian Civil War or the infamous Biafran War. Her novel Purple Hibiscus received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2005 for Best First Book (Africa) and that year’s Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (overall). It was also short-listed for the 2004 Orange Prize. She has also done a series of famous TED Talks including The Danger of a Single Story and We Should All Be Feminists. Introducing briefly her major works: 1) Purple Hibiscus : A novel narrating the coming of age story of a girl named Cambili. Sh...

Culture, language, tradition and way of life of a society are best preserved in the repository called stories. In our childhood, in starry nights, we listened to stories from our grandmother.   They always enthrall us, bringing us to the lands of ancient fairies and unicorns or opening the passageway to a world where we witness the eternal woes and pains of human beings, enlightening us with morals to have a balanced life. Department of English, Furkating College successfully organized a storytelling event  Galpakatha  on 28 September, 2019. The invited narrators were Atanu Bhattacharyya, a renowned Assamese poet, writer, an editor of the Assamese literary monthly  Satsori  and Mitali De, a famous Assamese singer.  The programme started at 11 am after a short introduction of the narrators by Dr Debashis Baruah, HOD, Department of English. For the next two hours, the duo narrated stories from countries like India, France, Bangladesh etc, mix...

Introducing V S Naipaul  V. S Naipaul was a writer of British diaspora . His full name is Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, but he is popularly known as V. S Naipaul. Naipaul was born in Trinidad on 17 August 1932. His grandparents were from India who migrated to the Caribbean Islands to work at the sugar plantations there as indentured labourers. His father was a journalist. Naipaul was influenced a lot by his father to become a writer as he mentioned in A Prologue to an Autobiography. In a vast array of novels, he dealt with his Indian origin, life in the Caribbean Islands and issues like idea of a home, identity, race etc.  Naipaul won the Booker Prize in 1971 for his novel In A Free State . I n 1989, he was awarded the Trinity Cross, T rinidad and Tobago 's highest national honour. He received a knighthood in Britain in 1990, and in 2001, the  Nobel Prize in Literature . He breathed his last on 11 August, 2018.  Briefly introducing Naipaul’s...

Event: Galpakatha   Department of English, Furkating College is organizing  Galpakatha, a storytelling event on 28 September, 2019. The venue of the program is Furkating College Auditorium. The program will start at 11 am. The storytelling journey will be conducted by Atanu Bhattacharya and Mitalee De.   Watch the video to know more about the program Galpakatha by Atanu Bhattacharya and Mitalee De.