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‘Damn, that fool can write’: how Martin Amis made everyone up their game
He exploded into the tweedy world of literature, a young, pouting and outrageously brash crusader for prose. Our writer remembers her encounters with the novelist, whose smarts and chutzpah confounded his peers
Lisa Allardice
22, May, 2023 @5:00 AM
Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists – meet the class of 23
From Kazuo Ishiguro to Zadie Smith, Granta’s list has been spotlighting future stars since 1983. Four decades on, what does its evolution says about our literary landscape?
Lisa Allardice
15, Apr, 2023 @8:00 AM
Katherine Heiny: ‘Writing about sex and relationships ends up being about infidelity’
Swallowed hearing aids, origami obsessives and a husband who’s a former MI6 agent ... Standard Deviation author Katherine Heiny isn’t short of inspiration, so why did it take 25 years to get her writing career off the ground?
Lisa Allardice
07, Apr, 2023 @9:00 AM
Eleanor Catton: ‘I felt so much doubt after winning the Booker’
In 2013, at 28, Eleanor Catton became the youngest ever Booker winner with The Luminaries. She talks about adapting the novel for screen, being shut out of her native New Zealand and why it has taken 10 years to write a follow-up
Lisa Allardice
18, Feb, 2023 @9:00 AM
Fay Weldon remembered: ‘She insisted that women needed more fulfilling lives’
Writers who knew her recall how her playful intelligence, rebellious spirit and colourful personality had a profound effect on their life and work
Lara Feigel, Amanda Craig and Lisa Allardice
06, Jan, 2023 @12:08 PM
‘Taking life advice from John Donne would be disastrous’ – the roof-walking, trapeze-flying Baillie Gifford winner
Katherine Rundell has just become the youngest ever winner of the prestigious literary prize – for a biography of ‘poet of desire’ John Donne. Why is she giving the £50,000 away? Because, she says, no man is an island
Lisa Allardice
18, Nov, 2022 @5:54 PM
Jonathan Coe: ‘We’re a nation driven by emotion and not by reason’
Tackling Brexit, Boris and his mother’s death during the pandemic, Jonathan Coe’s new state-of-the-nation novel puts Britain on the couch
Lisa Allardice
29, Oct, 2022 @8:00 AM
‘Writers all want to be rock stars’: Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka on ghosts, war and childish dreams
Set during the Sri Lankan civil war and narrated by a dead man, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is part murder mystery, part political satire and part love story. Its author recalls the grim events that inspired it – and the editor who kept pushing him to do better
Lisa Allardice
18, Oct, 2022 @5:11 PM
Elizabeth Strout: ‘There’s a quiet rumbling of violence in America. Is it going to expand and explode?’
The Booker-shortlisted author on the enduring popularity of Olive Kitteridge, cancel culture and why she couldn’t avoid US politics in her latest Lucy Barton novel
Lisa Allardice
24, Sep, 2022 @8:00 AM
Dame Hilary Mantel obituary
Double Booker prize-winning author best known for her Wolf Hall trilogy based on the life of Thomas Cromwell
Lisa Allardice
23, Sep, 2022 @7:08 PM
Author Orhan Pamuk: ‘I used to have three bodyguards, now I have one’
Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk on Salman Rushdie’s attack, responding to extremism in Turkey – and his new, oddly prophetic, pandemic novel
Lisa Allardice
10, Sep, 2022 @8:00 AM
Ian McEwan on ageing, legacy and the attack on his friend Salman Rushdie: ‘It’s beyond the edge of human cruelty’
The author’s new novel explores how global events shape individual lives – but nothing prepared him for this ‘dark moment’
Lisa Allardice
03, Sep, 2022 @9:00 AM
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