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J.K. Rowlings has given a hilarious response to a Twitter user who asked how she sleeps at night knowing she is losing fans. The Harry Potter author has been called out for making what many believe to be anti-transgender remarks.   Some fans are boycotting her and say they will no …

The Political Insider team was saddened to learn about the sudden passing of our friend, veteran and entrepreneur Gary Collins, who had recently appeared in an interview with The Political Insider’s Brett Smith in September of this year. Collins, 52, had passed away on September 3rd, 2022, but news of …

  French author, Annie Ernaux has won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. Giving her the award on Thursday, October 6, the Swedish Academy said Ernaux, 82, “consistently and from different angles examines a life marked by strong disparities regarding gender, language and class” “She has previously said that writing …

Booker Prize-winning novelist and author of Wolf Hall trilogy Dame Hilary Mantel has died aged 70.   Her literary agents 4th Estate Books made the announcement today, September 23, on Twitter.   “We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with …

Taylor Swift is facing a copyright infringement lawsuit over the 2019 book that accompanied her “Lover” album.   Lover broke records, becoming the top-selling album of 2019 in its first week.   Now, author Teresa La Dart, whose book “Lover” was published in 2010, filed a lawsuit in the Western District of Tennessee …

Veteran Nollywood actor, Kanayo O. Kanayo took to his Instagram page to share the exciting moment he met with renowned author and writer Chimamanda Adichie. Naija News reports that the lawyer cum actor attended the NBA’s 62nd Annual General Conference in Lagos alongside Chimamanda. In the video, Kanayo could not …

Onyeka Nwelue has lost his father.   The author expressed his heartbreak on Facebook as he revealed that his father died on Sunday morning, August 14.   “My father has departed this morning,” the academic visitor at Oxford University wrote alongside a photo of him and his father.  

A Berlin based author has faced backlash after claiming she formed the word “Soro Soke generation” for Nigerians.    The author identified as Trish Lorenz was accused of trying to reap from where she didn’t sow. Searches conducted also showed that she never contributed to the “Soro Soke” movement which gained grounds during …

Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell, 63, is dating a 21-year-old model.   The author met the young man at a Fashion Week show this spring, and since then, according to a socialite source, “she’s been taking him everywhere”.   The source told Page Six that the model has dark …