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Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist | Goldsmiths prize

Sarah Hall and Charlie Porter among writers on ‘genre-defying’ Goldsmiths prize shortlist | Goldsmiths prize

Sarah Hall, Charlie Porter and Yrsa Daley-Ward are among the writers shortlisted for this year’s Goldsmiths prize. The £10,000 award recognises fiction that “breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the... Read more »
Sally Rooney and Annie Ernaux among authors urging Macron to reinstate Gaza writers programme | Books

Sally Rooney and Annie Ernaux among authors urging Macron to reinstate Gaza writers programme | Books

Sally Rooney, Deborah Levy, Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux and Pulitzer winner Viet Thanh Nguyen are among 20 authors urging French president Emmanuel Macron to resume a “lifeline” programme for evacuating Palestinian writers,... Read more »
Yiyun Li and Barbara Demick among writers longlisted for Baillie Gifford prize | Books

Yiyun Li and Barbara Demick among writers longlisted for Baillie Gifford prize | Books

Personal stories are a strong focus in this year’s Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction longlist, with Yiyun Li’s memoir about the loss of her two teenage sons by suicide and Barbara Demick’s... Read more »
NSW spending .5m on literary hub to rival Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre and boost Sydney writers’ festival | Festivals

NSW spending $1.5m on literary hub to rival Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre and boost Sydney writers’ festival | Festivals

Sydney’s literati is about to get what Melbourne has had for more than decade – a rival to the Wheeler Centre that established the southern city’s Unesco-endorsed reputation as the literary and... Read more »
AI translation service launched for fiction writers and publishers prompts dismay among translators | Publishing

AI translation service launched for fiction writers and publishers prompts dismay among translators | Publishing

An AI fiction translation service aimed at both traditional publishers and self-published authors has been launched in the UK. GlobeScribe.ai is currently charging $100 per book, per language for use of its... Read more »
AI translation service launched for fiction writers and publishers prompts dismay among translators

AI translation service launched for fiction writers and publishers prompts dismay among translators

Your guide toexceptional          books BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around... Read more »
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in June | Books

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in June | Books

Rachel Clarke, author and physician I’ve just mainlined Rebecca Solnit’s latest collection of essays, No Straight Road Takes You There, in two sittings. It’s such a stirring, sinewy antidote to despair that... Read more »
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’ | Israel-Gaza war

Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’ | Israel-Gaza war

Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letter stating that the Israeli government’s war... Read more »
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