Jamil Jan Kochai was named winner of the $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize Wednesday evening in New York City for “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories,” a powerful short-story collection ...

Aspen Words announced the long list for the Aspen Words Literary Prize on Thursday. The titles include 12 novels and four short-story collections to be considered for the literary nonprofit’s $35,000 ...

Aspen Words announced on Monday the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize finalists. The finalists are: “Calling for a Blanket Dance” by Oscar Hokeah, “How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water” by Angie Cruz, ...

Aspen Words on Wednesday announced the faculty lineup for the Summer Words Writers Conference and Literary Festival, scheduled for June 16-21, 2019. The conference includes juried and non-juried ...

THOMAS Roebuck compiled ‘An English and Hindoostanee naval dictionary of technical terms and sea phrases’. First published in 1811 from Calcutta (now Kolkata), it was Urdu’s first dictionary of ...