Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label literature. Show all posts

Sunday, 28 June 2015

This was translated into Pahlavi in 570 CE by Borzūya & into Arabic in 750 CE by Persian scholar Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa as Kalil ah wa Dimnah . In Baghdad, the translation commissioned by Al-Mansur, the second Abbasid Caliph, is claimed to have become "second only to the Quran in popularity."
What is being talked about?

Friday, 19 June 2015

The Quill Award was an American literary award that ran for three years in 2005-2007. It was a "consumer-driven award created to inspire reading while promoting literacy."

Some famous awardees include:-

-Book of the Year: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré (Illustrator)(2005)

- Business: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner(2005)

- History/Current Events/Politics: An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore(2006)

- Biography/memoir: Einstein: His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson(2007)


Which was the first manga to win this award?