Global best-selling Japanese author Haruki Murakami has been named the Cultural Personality of the Year for the 2025 Sheikh ...

Haruki Murakami has been named cultural personality of the year for the 2025 Sheikh Zayed Book Award. The acclaimed Japanese author, renowned for his bestselling novels such as Norwegian Wood and ...

Valerya Milovanova is a UK-based illustrator who combines traditional materials with digital media like Procreate to make fun and heartwarming illustrations. She also loves screen printing, ...

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Haruki Murakami is back. More than a comeback, it is a rebirth: that of a short story he wrote in 1980 but never dared publish. Forty years later, this unfinished story has blossomed into a monumental ...

CLARKSVILLE, TN − The Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library is excited to host local authors and illustrators at the Writers and Illustrators Symposium Extravaganza (WISE) on March 29 ...

France’s education ministry has cancelled an order for “Beauty and the Beast” with modern illustrations ... A digital copy of the book intended for publication showed the original 1756 ...

Louis Vuitton and renowned Japanese artist Takashi Murakami continue to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their iconic collaboration with the launch of Louis Vuitton × Murakami re-edition collection ...

(Mainichi/Yasuo Yamada) NAGOYA -- A Japanese artist has been drawing illustrations featuring heart shapes every morning since shortly after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and sharing his ...

His 1945 début American collection, “All in Line,” recently reissued by New York Review of Books, puts both characteristics on striking display. “I’m unfit to do anything not funny ...

Whether you are new to philosophy or already interested in deep ideas, these ten books offer valuable wisdom and are worth adding to your bookshelf. Written as a series of personal reflections, ...

Centering mostly on rabbis and their wayward, modernity-seeking children, the novel — a melancholy book that also happens to be hopelessly, miraculously, unremittingly funny — offers an ...