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Byline: Dee Jefferson Mere hours after finishing the first draft of her novel Stone Yard Devotional, about a woman who retreats to a monastery in the face of personal crisis, [...]

Byline: Justine Jordan As the Guardian's fiction editor, I've been writing about the Booker prize for years. But this time, I was privileged to go behind the curtain, as part [...]

Byline: Ella Creamer Percival Everett, Rachel Kushner and Anne Michaels are among the writers whose novels have been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. The list of six includes five [...]

Byline: Sophia Nguyen The National Book Awards announced the titles nominated for its 2024 prizes this week. The nonfiction nominees include Salman Rushdie's account of the 2022 stabbing that nearly [...]

Byline: Hephzibah Anderson Pulitzer prize winner Elizabeth Strout, 68, has wooed readers and critics alike with a string of bestselling novels set in Maine, where she grew up and now [...]

Byline: Anton Hur As a non-American, I didn't know I was even eligible for a National Book Award until I was nominated for one last year. I assumed that any [...]

Byline: Dee Jefferson Melissa Lucashenko's historical novel Edenglassie, about the colonisation of Magandjin/Meanjin/Brisbane, has won the highest accolade at the Queensland literary awards, with the judges praising it as a [...]

Byline: India McTaggart enTerTainmenT CorrespondenT SIR SALMAN RUSHDIE could become the first author to win both the Baillie Gifford and Booker Prizes. The author, 77, has been revealed as one [...]

Prague, Sept 2 (CTK) - Czech writer and literary scholar Daniela Hodrova died on Saturday at the age of 78, Malvern publishers owner Jakub Hlavacek has told CTK. These days, [...]

JOAN BRADY, who has died aged 84, cut short a promising career as a dancer with the New York City Ballet under George Balanchine; married her mother's lover, on whom [...]

Byline: Earl Hopkins Aug. 29More than 30 years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Ron Tarver began photographing Black cowboys, rodeo queens, and ranchers across the southern plains of east Texas, the [...]

Byline: Anthony Cummins Radical politics, mixed-up heroines and the threat of violence are staple ingredients in the fiction of Rachel Kushner, who began to be spoken of as one of [...]

Byline: Francine Prose The National Book Awards will celebrate its 75th anniversary at this year's ceremony, on Nov. 20. To mark the occasion, The Washington Post has collaborated with the [...]

Kate McCusker's excellent article about the success of the Irish literary scene ( 'We all read like hell!' How Ireland became the world's literary powerhouse, 20 August ) does have [...]

Byline: Children's books by Emily Bearn Kiran Millwood Hargrave's debut novel, The Girl of Ink & Stars (2016), was published when she was 26. It won the Waterstone's Children's Book [...]

Byline: Ella Creamer The next book by Native American author Tommy Orange will not be read for 90 years. The author of There There and Wandering Stars has been selected [...]

Byline: By, Emily Gray A Chester-Le-Street teenager is celebrating her outstanding talent, after being named winner in a national poetry competition. Darcy Donkin, 16, a student at Durham High School, [...]

Byline: Celia McGee Recognized literary translators - Jennifer Croft, Anton Hur, Bruna Dantas Lobato among them - are making the jump to publishing rosters as authors themselves. By many measures, [...]