Duffy wrote novels, plays and poetry, campaigned for gay rights, and was a ‘tireless advocate’ for authors’ rights
Maureen Duffy, author of more than 60 works and a pioneering activist for gay rights …
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Ghost Stories by Siri Hustvedt review – life after Paul Auster ⊖
What’s it like to lose your partner of more than 40 years? The novelist and essayist reflects on going from ‘we’ to ‘I’
It wasn’t quite Beatlemania, but, at the height of Paul Auster’s fame in the 198…
3 months ago
António Lobo Antunes’s exhilarating novels forced Portugal to confront its darkest moments ○
With an exacting modernist style and the courage to address fascism and colonialism head on, Lobo Antunes’s writing is a deluge of unforgiving truths in lush prose
António Lobo Antunes, Portuguese nov…
5 months ago
A backstreet abortion nearly killed her. It became a story that shaped the rest of her life ○
Annie Ernaux, who had an illegal abortion in 1963, went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
6 months ago
Elif Shafak named new president of the Royal Society of Literature ○
The British-Turkish writer was elected after a vote among the society’s fellows, with outgoing president Bernardine Evaristo describing her selection as ‘terrifically inspired’
Novelist Elif Shafak ha…
The Dinner Party by Viola van de Sandt review – a formidable debut ⊕
An intimate soiree builds to a horrific climax in this visceral novel about a young woman tasked with hosting a meal for her fiance
Literature loves a dinner party. From Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway …
8 months ago
Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai ⊕
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10 months ago
Summer of Our Discontent by Thomas Chatterton Williams review – a liberal who hates the left ○
In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action
Thomas Chatterton Williams, a public intellectual of some standing in the US, dislikes the Tru…
‘Literature has completely changed my life’: footballer Héctor Bellerín’s reading list ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Former Arsenal player wins admiration for his taste in books, but admits one novel defeated him
Héctor Bellerín’s summer holidays look a little different from your typical footballer. Rather than pict…
12 months ago
‘I’m here to open doors’: Bernardine Evaristo on success, controversy and why she plans to donate her £100k award ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The Girl, Woman, Other author has this week been awarded a one-off Women’s prize award for her outstanding contribution. She talks about her long road to recognition, and using her profile to support…