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30 Rock star and children’s book author Maulik Pancholy had been due to speak against bullying at Pennsylvania school

Poet says government has rejected some 2022 MacAlister recommendations because reforming system is not a vote winner

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New research suggests some 16th-century writers were confident Shakespeare was the pseudonym of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

Production examines why Scottish poet’s The Living Mountain lay unpublished in a drawer for 30 years

Authors and translators say PEN America has ‘had no criticism of American complicity in the bombardment of Gaza’, in stark contrast to other national centres of the organisation

Of Cattle and Men by Brazilian writer Ana Paula Maia, translated by Zoë Perry, is set in a slaughterhouse in an isolated corner of Brazil

£65,000 gift will not restore the full, 10-day occasion but organisers say it will make pop-up events possible

While AI tools have been used by some translators to support their work, three-quarters of those surveyed believe the emerging technology will negatively impact their future income

Canadian author’s work, shared exclusively with the Observer, is to be shown alongside art by Goya