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Stillwater, a fictional panda in the 2005 book Zen Shorts. Stillwater, an animated adaptation; Stillwater, a 2021 American crime drama; Still Water, a 2011 bronze of a horse's head at Marble Arch, London, England "Still Water (Love)" and "Still Water (Peace)", 1970 songs by Four Tops
He recorded his experiences during the six weeks he spent in South Africa in his book Honorary White (London: The Bodley Head, 1975, ISBN 978-0370103570). [19] He taught English studies at New York University and in 2002 was a writer-in-residence at Howard University, Washington, D.C.
Aag Ka Darya (Urdu: آگ کا دریا; River of Fire) is a landmark historical Urdu-language novel written by Qurratulain Hyder providing context to the partition of the Indian subcontinent into two nation-states.
Water is set in 1938, when India was still under the colonial rule of the British, and when the marriage of children to older men was commonplace. Following Hindu tradition, when a man died, his widow would be forced to spend the rest of her life in a widow's ashram, an institution for widows to make amends for the sins from her previous life that supposedly caused her husband's death.
Nigorie (Japanese: にごり江, Hepburn: Nigorie), translated into English as Troubled Waters and Muddy Bay, is a short story [1] by Japanese writer Ichiyō Higuchi, written and published in 1895. [2] It depicts the fate of a courtesan in the red light district of a nameless town during the Meiji era. [2]
The Twain–Ament indemnities controversy was a major cause célèbre in the United States of America in 1901 as a consequence of the published reactions of American humorist Mark Twain to reports of Rev. William Scott Ament and other missionaries collecting indemnities (in excess of losses) from Chinese people in the aftermath of the Boxer Uprising.
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Freshwater was a New York Times Notable Book, [12] was named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker [13] and NPR. [14] Emezi is also recognized as a 2018 National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree. [15] In 2019, Freshwater was nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction — the first time a non-binary transgender author has been nominated ...