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Award for short story about a young man reflecting on a small-town childhood includes publication on the Guardian websiteRead Tian Yi’s The Good SonTian Yi has won the 2023 4thWrite prize for The Good Son, a short story about a young man reflecting on …
The critically acclaimed author is the first ever laureate in the prize’s history to write in Nynorsk and his win marks a further step in the Nordic state’s rise as a cultural powerhouse• Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel prize in literatureThis year’s win…
Publishing figures defend Stranger Things star’s book, Nineteen Steps, after this week’s publication ignites criticism on social mediaThe publication of Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown’s debut novel has reignited a debate over ghostwritten cele…
Novel described as ‘truly stunning feat of fiction’ tells love story of two first world war soldiersAlice Winn has won the 2023 Waterstones debut fiction prize for her novel In Memoriam, which has been described as a “truly stunning feat of fiction”.Th…
The book would continue the two he wrote with the late Peter Straub, while new stories are due next yearStephen King has suggested that he may write a third instalment of the two-book Talisman series, which he co-wrote with the late Peter Straub. Asked…
Previously nominated authors Sebastian Barry, Tan Twan Eng and Paul Murray join 13-strong field including four debuts• Irish writers, debuts – and groundbreaking sci-fi: the Booker longlist in depthA longlist of 13 “original and thrilling” books offeri…
Set around a culture war in a nursing home, Chandran’s third novel has won Australia’s biggest literary prize – and yet, she says, she was almost too afraid to write itGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailShankari Chandran’s Chai Time at Cinnamon…
Marcel Pagnol based his famous movies on a Provencal manor he’d known as a child. Now his legacy is at risk, says his grandsonIn 1941 the French novelist, playwright and film-maker Marcel Pagnol bought a chateau in a Provençal valley outside Marseille …
The Czech novelist found himself silenced by the communist regime at home, but achieved international fame with playfully philosophical fictionCzech writer Milan Kundera, who explored being and betrayal over half a century in poems, plays, essays and n…
Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy led the way. Now a new crop of novelists is putting the heating emergency at the forefront of their plotsScience fiction has always dealt with worst-case scenarios when imagining our possible futures, and the climate…