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The US nonprofit, whose online community encouraged members to write a novel in a month, has been rocked by controversy in recent yearsNaNoWriMo, the US-based nonprofit organisation that challenged people to write a novel in a month, has announced it i…
The Oscar-winning star of The French Connection, The Conversation, Superman and The Poseidon Adventure has died, along with his classical musician wife, according to a Santa Fe sheriffOscar-winning actor Gene Hackman has died at the age of 95. In a sta…
Judges praise Anam as ‘profoundly relevant’ with Daniel Browning, Amy Crutchfield and Will Kostakis also winning in their categoriesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailA debut novel exploring trauma, displacement and political exile has won the …
Reading is cool again, but publishers and parents fear that new TikTok trend promoting erotic titles goes too farParents, publishers and booksellers have generally welcomed “BookTok”, the videos on TikTok promoting literature. In an age when many worry…
Award for mould-breaking fiction goes to multi-genre work – ‘part poetry, part electricity’ – retelling the story of Durham CathedralBenjamin Myers has won the 2023 Goldsmiths prize for Cuddy, a novel that combines poetry, prose, play, diary and real h…
Academic suggests seven short stories, five poems and one non-fiction work were written by the Little Women author under the name EH GouldA researcher has uncovered a trove of stories and poems he believes to have been written under a pseudonym by Litt…
Award is usually seen as elitist but former screenwriter’s Veiller sur elle has strong sales and is a ‘popular’ readJean-Baptiste Andrea has won France’s most prestigious literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for a bestselling saga of the tumultuous life …
Nobel prize-winning Peruvian author still plans to write an essay on Sartre that ‘will be the last thing I write’Peru’s best-known living writer, the Nobel prize-winning author Mario Vargas Llosa, has announced that his seven-decade literary career is …
Artist creates new edition of Orwell classic after Swansea charity shop had its fill of Dan Brown bestsellerSix years after an Oxfam shop amusingly, but seriously, pleaded for no more copies of The Da Vinci Code, the artist David Shrigley has completed…
Publisher to double shareholder payout as demand grows for books by Sarah J Maas and Samantha ShannonBusiness live – latest updatesThe book publisher Bloomsbury has hit record profits in the first half of the year thanks in part to a boom in fantasy fi…