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Authors withdraw from PEN America awards over Gaza conflict stance, sparking debate in literary community.

Vrinda Varma, Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C), has been chosen for a grant instituted by PEN America for literary translation. Ms. Varma translated Alingam, a Malayalam novel by S. Girish Kumar based on the life of dramatist Ochira Velukutti.

The restriction of reading material — particularly books that deal with topics like race and sexuality — has become a major culture war issue in North America. And one author is ‘certain’ it could happen in Australia.

A teacher at a public school near Houston has a secret classroom bookshelf largely made up of challenged titles. Many of the books deal with race, sex and gender.

Escambia County School District has pulled more than 1,600 books to review them for pornography or depictions of sexual conduct

Officials say materials – including encyclopedias and other books – violate state law signed by Governor Ron DeSantis

A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit may move forward against a Florida Panhandle school district over its removal of books about race and LGBTQ+ identities from library shelves

Florida congressman Maxwell Frost, who introduced the Fight Banned Books Act, says bans are ‘baseless attack on our civil rights’

The Bluest Eyes and 13 Reasons Why top the list of controversial books in Florida.