A debut poetry collection with themes including race, addiction and womanhood has won this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize. American poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney took home the £20,000 prize – awarded to... Read more »
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Epistolary novels were once all the rage, from the epic Clarissa to the lurid fun of Dracula. They don’t come along very often now, perhaps because they can be tricky to do... Read more »
First-time fiction writer Ingrid Horrocks has won New Zealand’s richest literary prize for her debut short story collection, All Her Lives. The Wellington-based poet, essayist and memoirist won the prestigious NZ$65,000 (A$53,000,... Read more »
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When Lauren Elkin was a child, she took lessons with a voice teacher in Northport, Long Island, who would get her to perform in front of a mirror. Singing songs from the Italian... Read more »
An unpublished novel exploring cancel culture in the post-#MeToo era has won the inaugural Libraro prize, a £50,000 award set up to “sidestep the traditional barricades of the book industry” by allowing... Read more »
‘Yes, you will leave this place,” the chorus of child protagonists in a community of sex workers say at the start of Tahmima Anam’s incantatory and fiery new novel of female defiance,... Read more »
A countdown of the greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide, 100-81. Come back tomorrow to see the next novels that made the list... Read more »