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Pollack, who created the first mainstream transgender superhero, Kate Godwin, had been fighting Hodgkin’s lymphomaRachel Pollack, award-winning author, leading authority on tarot and the occult, trans activist and comic-book writer who created the firs…
Children’s and young adult author of 1970 book Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret says growing intolerance must be challengedThe author Judy Blume says a rise in intolerance in America has led to a “much worse” epidemic of book banning than she exper…
Founded by two translators – one American, one British – the Salt initiative will provide mentorships, funding and a south Asia-focused literary translation schoolA new project to help bring the “extraordinarily rich” literature of south Asia to Englis…
Crime writers have paid tribute to the London-born author behind the long-running detective series, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2020Christopher Fowler, author of the Bryant & May series of detective novels, has died at the age of 69, having be…
Augustus Gloop now ‘enormous’ instead of ‘fat’, Mrs Twit no longer ‘ugly’ and Oompa Loompas are gender neutralRoald Dahl’s children’s books are being rewritten to remove language deemed offensive by the publisher Puffin.Puffin has hired sensitivity rea…
Two hundred years on, Austen’s take on the pressures of friendship and love is winning over young readers“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!” wrote Jane Austen in Pride and Prej…
Bestselling author cancels plans for a colouring book based on her novel It Ends With Us, saying she ‘absolutely sees’ why fans were criticalBestselling author Colleen Hoover has apologised after she announced plans to publish a colouring book based on…
Novelist and screenwriter says he is unable to move arms and legs and has undergone spinal surgeryThe novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi has said he may never be able to walk or use a pen again after a fall on Boxing Day in Rome.The Buddha of Sur…