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Byline: Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, Megan Nolan, Eimear McBride and Alex Clark Anne Enright: 'She was all in, every time' O'Brien blew open the possibilities for Irish fiction, not because [...]

Decades before Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, the Irish writer Edna O'Brien -- who died at 93 on July 27 -- provided her own searing portraits of an oppressive, violent society [...]

Irish novelist Dame Edna O'Brien has died aged 93 after a long illness. In a career that spanned more than 60 years, O'Brien wrote The Country Girls (1960), about the [...]

Decades before Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, the Irish writer Edna O’Brien — https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/28/obituaries/edna-o-brien-dead.html — provided her own searing portraits of an oppressive, violent society seen through the prism of female [...]

Byline: Ben Lawrence The death of Irish novelist Edna O'Brien at the weekend reminded me of something lost. Amid the necessary and deserved encomia for one of 20th-century literature's most [...]

Byline: Anthony Cummins Sulaiman Addonia was born in Eritrea and lives in Brussels. He spent his teens in Saudi Arabia (the setting for his 2008 debut, The Consequences of Love) [...]

London: University of Chichester has issued the following news release: The Dublin-born novelist and philosopher, Iris Murdoch, has been commemorated with a blue plaque at number 29 Cornwall Gardens in [...]

Byline: Tod Palmer (KSHB) -- Click here for updates on this story LEE'S SUMMIT, Missouri (KSHB) -- Fran Baker is a romance novelist by trade, but she made a foray [...]

Her solution? A packaging business that sells ideas for commercial genre fiction featuring characters from broadly diverse backgrounds. One evening this fall, a crowd of writers and publishing professionals mingled [...]

One hundred and fifty years ago on Thursday, the novelist Willa Cather was born in her grandmother's house in Virginia. Though she drew from her Southern childhood throughout her career, [...]

Byline: Kenan Malik The novelist, Milan Kundera once observed to fellow-writer Philip Roth, 'teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question'. He feared that in a world in [...]

Byline: Adam Thirlwell In many ways Milan Kundera formed how I think about novels. I first discovered him at about 17, when I read his essay The Art of the [...]

Cormac McCarthy, who died last week at 89, had a famously unusual career. His first five novels, published over two decades, earned him considerable critical respect but were commercial failures. [...]

Byline: Robert Macfarlane, Annie Proulx, Benjamin Myers, Sebastian Junger, Thomas Keneally and Travis Elborough Robert Macfarlane: 'He listened harder to prose than anyone since Melville' British writer and fellow of [...]

Byline: By, Susan Knox Only Fools and Horses star Kate Saunders has died aged 62. The actor's grieving sister, Louisa Saunders confirmed the sad news on Twitter on Monday, April [...]

London: Torbay Council, UK Government has issued the following news release: Agatha Christie's masterpiece 'And Then There Were None' has been chosen by the public to be inscribed on a [...]

Byline: Christopher Howse The novelist J I M Stewart ended his life of Dorothy L Sayers in the Dictionary of National Biography: 'She had no children, but adopted a son.' [...]

Crime author Peter Robinson has died at the age of 72. The Leeds-born novelist was best known for his crime novels set in Yorkshire, featuring Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. [...]

Byline: Stephanie Merry Eloise Hampson's anguish has been viewed more than a million times. Complete strangers have witnessed the 17-year-old's face crumple, her desperate stare into the middle distance, the [...]

Byline: Anthony Cummins Patricia Lockwood, 39, is a poet, critic and memoirist whose first novel, No One Is Talking About This, was shortlisted for last year's Booker prize, as well [...]

Byline: Nakul Krishna Most of the tributes to Hilary Mantel in the coming days will doubtless laud the extraordinary achievement represented by the Cromwell trilogy, the books that finally brought [...]

Byline: Jayne Augoye The celebrated Nigerian novelist and playwright died on Sunday at 54. The award-winning filmmaker and novelist Biyi Bandele, a mainstay in the Nigerian literary space who produced [...]

Byline: BRAD WHEELER, Staff Lead Swedish journalist and would-be novelist Stieg Larsson was 50 when he suffered a fatal heart attack on this day in 2004. Because of a broken [...]