The Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who was censored, imprisoned and forced into exile, a perennial contender for the Nobel prize for literature and one of few writers working in an indigenous... Read more »
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87 May 28 2025 Read moreUS prisons ban reading materials at alarming paceThe Kenyan writer Ngugi wa, who was censored, imprisoned and forced... Read more »
On Iowa City’s Market Street stands a low-slung, trailer-like red building. This is Dave’s Fox Head Tavern, one of the sites where the official culture and the counterculture of this most literary... Read more »
Oisín Fagan, 33, grew up in County Meath and lives in Dublin. In 2020 he was shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse comic fiction prize with his first novel, Nobber, about the... Read more »
We readers of Mathias Énard’s The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild know something that the novel’s protagonist could not: No one, at least in this corner of France, ever really dies.... Read more »
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Queues of customers spilled out of South Korea’s bookshops yesterday and online stores crashed as readers tried to get their hands on the work of the new Nobel prize winner, Han Kang.... Read more »
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In 1952, a book appeared that redefined children’s literature. “A lap is so you don’t get crumbs on the floor,†it proclaimed. “A mustache is to wear on Halloween. A hat is... Read more »