2024 Nero book awards shortlist announced to celebrate ‘extraordinary writing talent’ | Books

2024 Nero book awards shortlist announced to celebrate ‘extraordinary writing talent’ | Books

Novelists Donal Ryan, Colin Barrett, broadcaster Zeinab Badawi and children’s and young adult author Patrick Ness are among those shortlisted for this year’s Nero awards. Read moreUS prisons ban reading materials at... Read more »
‘I had a crush on him’: Bernardine Evaristo on writing Mr Loverman | Fiction

‘I had a crush on him’: Bernardine Evaristo on writing Mr Loverman | Fiction

I spend a lot of my life being other people, spending years inside the lives of my fictional protagonists, and, when the creative alchemy is going well, it is intensely satisfying. It’s... Read more »
Virginie Despentes: ‘I wasn’t writing Baise-Moi from a very good place’ | Fiction

Virginie Despentes: ‘I wasn’t writing Baise-Moi from a very good place’ | Fiction

Virginie Despentes, 55, was born in Nancy, France, and lives between Paris and Barcelona. Her books include her 1993 debut, Baise-Moi, about two sex workers on a killing spree; the feminist manifesto... Read more »
From poverty, psychiatric hospital and writing in a shed to literary stardom: Janet Frame at 100 | Autobiography and memoir

From poverty, psychiatric hospital and writing in a shed to literary stardom: Janet Frame at 100 | Autobiography and memoir

In February 1975 the New Zealand writer Janet Frame was the subject of a rare interview for television conducted by the journalist Michael Noonan. This relaxed, intimate retrospective of her life and work... Read more »
Show up, love the process, don’t follow trends: insider tips on how to write a book | Creative writing

Show up, love the process, don’t follow trends: insider tips on how to write a book | Creative writing

Does everyone really have a book in them? And if you want to write one, where do you start? The novelist and podcaster Elizabeth Day, host of the How to Fail series,... Read more »
The Writing “I” and the Reading “I”: Sheila Heti and the New Frontiers of the Personal

The Writing “I” and the Reading “I”: Sheila Heti and the New Frontiers of the Personal

Why do we love to read life writing? The answer seems to have as much to do with others as ourselves. At its best, life writing offers a heady compound of insight... Read more »
Show up, love the process, don’t follow trends: insider tips on how to write a book | Creative writing

Jeremy Cooper: ‘My agent strongly advised me against writing fiction’ | Fiction

Jeremy Cooper, 77, was born in Dorset and lives in Somerset. An art historian who served as a guest expert on the Antiques Roadshow between 1979 and 1981, he’s the author of... Read more »
'Extraordinary' Joseph Coelho novel wins Carnegie medal for children's writing

'Extraordinary' Joseph Coelho novel wins Carnegie medal for children's writing

Joseph Coelho has won the Yoto Carnegie medal for children’s books, marking the first time the prize has been awarded to a Black British writer. Source link Read more »
From poverty, psychiatric hospital and writing in a shed to literary stardom: Janet Frame at 100 | Autobiography and memoir

‘Extraordinary’ Joseph Coelho novel wins Carnegie medal for children’s writing | Books

Joseph Coelho has won the Yoto Carnegie medal for children’s books, marking the first time the prize has been awarded to a Black British writer. Read moreUS prisons ban reading materials at... Read more »
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