âMy dream is that peopleâs eyes will be opened instinctively to their surroundings,â says Simon Jenkins at the end of his new book. âI want people to point at buildings, laugh, cry... Read more »
British novelist Ross Raisin has won the 2024 BBC national short story award for Ghost Kitchen, a story narrated by a bicycle courier and inspired by the gig economy. Raisin was announced... Read more »
South African writer Nadia Davids has won this yearâs Caine prize for African writing for her short story Bridling, described as a âtriumph of languageâ by the chair of judges. The prize,... Read more »
The Hugo Awards are presented each August for notable achievements in science fiction and science fantasy published in English over the previous year. Widely considered the most prestigious award in the... Read more »
Alice Munro, short story master and Nobel Laureate, dies at 92 May 14 2024 Canadian author Alice Munro died at her home in Port Hope, Ontario, on May 13. She was 92.
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At the height of the Great Terror in 1937, Joseph Stalin took a break from the purges to edit a new textbook on the history of the USSR. Published shortly thereafter, the... Read more »
On the front cover of the South African writer Magogodi oaMphela Makhene’s impressive debut collection of linked stories about life under and after apartheid, a young Black girl, primly attired in a... Read more »