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‘Every monster has a story’: Catriona Ward on her chilling gothic novel
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When Catriona Ward was about 13, she’d wake up each night with a hand in the small of her back, pushing her out of bed. “It was absolutely terrifying. I could feel that there was someone in the room.” Had Google been ...
‘Can objects teach us about reality?’: Ruth Ozeki on her Women’s prize-winning novel
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The first thing the Japanese American author Ruth Ozeki did the morning after winning the Women’s prize for fiction was meditate. “A very short one,” she says when we meet at her hotel later. She was so convinced she ...
‘First modern novel – oldest language’: Sanskrit translation of Don Quixote rescued from oblivion
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There is an adjective that all too invitingly describes the wildly optimistic endeavours of the American book collector, the Hungarian-British explorer and the two Kashmiri pandits who, almost a century ago, took it u...
‘How do you give up privilege?’: Damon Galgut on his Booker-winning novel
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“I’m used to not winning – that’s kind of what I’m programmed for, and what I’m braced for,” says the quietly spoken South African novelist Damon Galgut, the morning after he was awarded the Booker prize for his ninth...
‘I yelled with joy’: how Caleb Azumah Nelson went from Apple store employee to Costa First Novel award winner
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[object Window], during the first Covid lockdown, Caleb Azumah Nelson’s father offered to cut his hair. “He’s not great with his words, but that’s a very specific way of saying: ‘Can I care for you?’” explains the 28-year-old...
‘It couldn’t be more relevant’: the unseen Richard Wright novel finally getting its due
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He was one of most influential African American writers of the 20th century. But Richard Wright found it hard to talk to his daughter about race. “It’s like soldiers who go to war and then come back,” Julia Wright, wh...
‘Novel of the moment’: Sally Rooney’s third book hits the shelves
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It’s been one of the most hyped book releases in the literary calendar, with fans desperate to get their hands on a copy of Sally Rooney’s hotly anticipated third novel. Following on from the dizzying success of her c...
‘People said I didn’t have enough talent’: the rise of Italy’s graphic novel gonzo
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Michele Rech is uncomfortable with success. The shy 38-year-old comic book artist, who works from a modest apartment on the outskirts of Rome, does not use the word “fame” but refers instead to his rise to national pr...
‘The novel can’t just leave the war out’: Ali Smith on fiction in times of crisis
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“After great pain, a formal feeling comes.” Last week I went to a reading by Claudia Durastanti from her shapeshifting memoir/novel/essay, Strangers I Know. She pointed out the notion of changing form in this quote fr...
‘The process is shockingly void of communication’: how a graphic novel aims to illuminate IVF
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A man stands in the doorway of a bathroom, brushing his teeth. His wife lies in bed, reading. “So… ummm… are we going to…?당신은 행사를 다음과 같이 표시할 수 있습니다.. He pauses for a moment, then enters the bedroom. They have a conversation about sex...
‘They told me I was grown up enough to keep a secret’: exclusive extract from Silverview, John le Carré’s final novel
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~에 10 o’clock of a rainswept morning in London’s West End, a young woman in a baggy anorak, a woollen scarf pulled up around her head, strode resolutely into the storm that was roaring down South Audley Street. Her na...
‘This is a perfect novel’: Sally Rooney on the book that transformed her life
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When I first read Natalia Ginzburg’s work several years ago, I felt as if I was reading something that had been written for me, something that had been written almost inside my own head or heart. I was astonished that...
나를 바꾼 순간: Ken Follett – killing time, I found the inspiration for my most successful novel
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In the mid-70s, when I was a young reporter on the London newspaper the Evening News, I was sent to Peterborough – then pretty much on the edge of the paper’s circulation area – to do a story. I had finished my interv...
이후 새로운 시작 60: ‘I always dreamed of being a writer – and published my first novel at 70’
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When Anne Youngson’s agent told her a publisher had made an offer for her first novel, she was worried. "나는 말했다: ‘Don’t they want to meet me?’ I was convinced that when they discovered how old I was, their whole attit...
AK Blakemore wins Desmond Elliott prize for ‘stunning’ debut novel
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AK Blakemore has won the Desmond Elliott prize for best debut, with her historical novel about the English witch trials of the 17th century, The Manningtree Witches, praised by judges as a “stunning achievement”. Foll...
Alex Gino’s children’s novel George retitled Melissa ‘to respect trans heroine’
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Alex Gino’s award-winning children’s novel about a trans girl, 성 조지, is being renamed Melissa, after Gino and publisher Scholastic said they made a mistake in titling it with a name “the main character does not like...