âI know youâre trying to skirt around it,â says BenjamÃn Labatut when I put to him that his books concern people of unworldly intelligence working on problems that are maximally deep, âbut the... Read more »
Indian authorities have granted permission for the prosecution of the Booker prize-winning Indian novelist Arundhati Roy over comments she made about Kashmir at an event in 2010. The top official in the... Read more »
Inspired by an 18th-century Scottish philosopher and the modern scourge of misinformation, Suzanne Collins is returning to the ravaged, post-apocalyptic land of Panem for a new Hunger Games novel. Scholastic announced on... Read more »
On 24 June 1965 a young woman sat her eight-month-old baby girl on a blanket in the gardens of the Villa Borghese in Rome, and walked quickly away. Within minutes, a passerby spotted the tiny child,... Read more »
John Burnside, author of Black Cat Bone and The Asylum Dance, has died aged 69 after a short illness. He died on 29 May, his publisher has confirmed. Though mainly known for... Read more »
Caleb Carr, the son of the Beat poet Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his cat, Masha, has died... Read more »
Romanian author Mircea CÄrtÄrescu and American translator Sean Cotter have won the â¬100,000 Dublin literary award for the novel Solenoid. âBy turns wildly inventive, philosophical and lyrical, with passages of great beauty,... Read more »
Kaliane Bradley (pronounced Cull-yan, which means âdarlingâ in Cambodian) is packing to move house when I visit her in Walthamstow, east London. The move has been made possible by the publication of her first novel, The Ministry... Read more »
CJ Sansom, the bestselling author of Dissolution, Winter in Madrid and Dominion has died aged 71, having been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare cancer that affects bone marrow, in 2012. His... Read more »