‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman: From the swimming habits of dead trout to the revelation that some mammals can breathe through their backsides, a group of leading leftfield scientists have been taking their bows at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the …
Ukraine recap: Russian election special – and the winner will be … Vladimir Putin: Russian voters have been heading to the polls this week. But it would be misleading to say they were voting to choose a president. That’s already been done for them – it’ll be Vladimir Putin. If there had ever been any …
Booker prize: rediscovering the first female winner, the often-forgotten Bernice Rubens: One of the most captivating and enigmatic novelists of the 20th century, Bernice Rubens remains largely unknown despite her remarkable literary achievements. She was the second recipient of the Booker prize in 1970 for her novel The Elected Member and its first female winner. …
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Time Shelter: International Booker’s first Bulgarian winner is a rich experiment in style, structure and ideas: A philosophical exploration of memory and nostalgia, about forgetting and trying to hold on to our past and make sense of our present and future, Georgi Gospodinov’s Time Shelter is a worthy winner of this year’s International Booker prize. …
David Chipperfield: how the 2023 Pritzker prize winner creates buildings that last: The British architect David Chipperfield has been announced as the winner of the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize, arguably the highest international honour in the discipline. In its citation, the jury highlighted the elegance, restraint and permanence that have consistently characterised Chipperfield’s oeuvre, “an …
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A cool South African City image: Stephen Muzhingi – Winner Comrades Marathon 2010 Image by Kleinz1 Stephen Muzhingi (Zimbabwe) won the 2010 Comrades Marathon men’s race in a time of 5h29:01. The race is help annually between the South African cities of Pietermarizburg and Durban (or vice-versa). He is pictured here, having entered Durban’s Kingsmead …
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Sony World Photography Awards announces NATIONAL AWARDS 2022 South African Winner: Sony World Photography Awards announces NATIONAL AWARDS 2022 South African Winner EXHIBITION: 13 APRIL – 2 MAY 2022 l SOMERSET HOUSE, LONDON The World Photography Organisation and Sony Middle East and Africa are delighted to reveal Bongani Tshabalala as South Africa’s National Award winner …
TECNO announces grand prize winner of R600k competition: JOHANNESBURG, The grand prize winner in the #TECNOMobileZA competition has been announced. For the past 16 weeks, premium smartphone brand TECNO has been running an exciting competition to celebrate the launch of its SPARK 7 Series and CAMON 17P in South Africa. To enter participants had to …
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Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah: an introduction to the man and his writing: Abdulrazak Gurnah during the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2017. Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images The Nobel Prize in Literature, considered the pinnacle of achievement for creative writers, has been awarded 114 times to 118 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2021. This year it …
Nobel winner Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction traces small lives with wit and tenderness: Abdulrazak Gurnah captivatingly draws readers into the experiences and vivid lifeworlds of his characters Getty Images For those of us who have read and reread, taught, and written about the fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Nobel Prize in Literature committee has confirmed what …
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