Ibrahim helped define a genre of South African jazz music in a career that spanned eight decades.
While her husband, noted Kannada writer and journalist P. Lankesh, resigned as a professor and took to making films and producing plays, Indira Lankesh supported him by selling sarees from her house
A noted voice in contemporary Malayalam literature, several of his poems are included in university curricula across Kerala
Satrapi's autobiographical novel was born from her experiences of Iran's Islamic revolution and war with Iraq.
Known for her graphic novel ‘Persepolis,’ Iranian-French artist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi has died at the age of 56.
Franco-Iranian author and film director Marjane Satrapi, renowned for her graphic novel and film Persepolis, has died aged 56, a year after the passing of “the love of her life”, a member of her close circle said on Thursday. “Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,” they said in a statement. Born in 1969 in Rasht in northern Iran, Satrapi arrived in France in 1994 and gained French nationality in 2006. An...
The French-Iranian author and illustrator was known for her graphic novel series and Oscar-nominated film.
Veteran Hong Kong theatre figure “King Sir” Chung King-fai has died at the age of 89. Chung’s nephew confirmed his death on Wednesday, saying he had died peacefully in his sleep at home in the morning. “My uncle dedicated his entire life to the theatre, leaving behind a lasting legacy through the generations of students he inspired,” the nephew said through the social media page of free-to-air broadcaster TVB. “We are deeply aware of the profound respect and affection everyone holds for him....
Born in Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh) on February 15, 1935, poet Bashir Badr was renowned for his mastery of the Urdu language, especially in ghazals, and was also well versed in Persian, Hindi and English
Known as the "saxophone colossus", Rollins had a lauded career spanning decades.
Saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who spent more than two years practising in solitude as a young man on a windswept New York bridge to reinvent his playing and become one of the giants of jazz, died at the age of 95 on Monday, his publicist said. Rollins had recorded the confidently titled Jazz Colossus album in 1956. But the saxophonist remained wracked with self-doubt. So, in the summer of 1959, he began to play on the windswept pedestrian walkway of New York’s Williamsburg Bridge. Initially a...
Petrini's movement rejected fast food to promote sustainable production and traditional cooking.