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Milan Kundera: The Unbearable Lightness of Being author dies aged 94
The Czech novelist found himself silenced by the communist regime at home, but achieved international fame with playfully philosophical fiction
Richard Lea and Sian Cain
12, Jul, 2023 @9:45 AM
Writer Fay Weldon dies aged 91
Author of novels including The Life and Loves of a She-Devil wrote more than 30 books as well as TV drama
Richard Lea
04, Jan, 2023 @3:31 PM
Carmen Callil, pioneering champion of female writers, dies aged 84
Publisher who founded Virago Press began as a campaigning outsider who introduced UK readers to authors including Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood
Richard Lea
18, Oct, 2022 @9:09 AM
Snowman author Raymond Briggs dies aged 88
Beloved creator of Fungus the Bogeyman and Father Christmas brought a distinctive strain of melancholy to the genre
Richard Lea
10, Aug, 2022 @7:20 AM
The Musical Human by Michael Spitzer review – a wide-ranging global history of music
From the first rhythms and birdsong to Whitney Houston and Arvo Pärt – how music has evolved over 165m years
Richard Lea
03, Apr, 2021 @6:30 AM
John le Carré, author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, dies aged 89
Thriller writer most famous for stories of complex cold war intrigue began his career as a real-life spy in postwar Europe
Richard Lea and Sian Cain
13, Dec, 2020 @10:00 PM
Jan Morris, historian, travel writer and trans pioneer, dies aged 94
From her Everest scoop to her journey as a trans woman, the author’s authoritative voice and questioning mind found an eager audience
Richard Lea
20, Nov, 2020 @4:01 PM
Louise Glück wins the 2020 Nobel prize in literature – as it happened
The US poet has won ‘for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal’
Sian Cain, Alison Flood and Richard Lea
08, Oct, 2020 @11:42 AM
Charges against Tsitsi Dangarembga must be dropped, argue writers
The Zimbabwean novelist, shortlisted for this year’s Booker prize for This Mournable Body, is accused of intending to incite public violence in Harare
Richard Lea
06, Oct, 2020 @5:00 AM
Jane Austen museum under threat due to coronavirus
The heritage site where she wrote all her novels says it could be forced to close for ever because all of its operational budget comes from visitors
Richard Lea
11, Jun, 2020 @3:13 PM
My favourite book as a kid: Trubloff by John Burningham
This 1960s classic about a mouse who wants to learn the balalaika and tour central Europe seems entirely different to today’s rainbow picture books
Richard Lea
30, Apr, 2020 @10:21 AM
Waterstones defends minimum wage in year of record profits
Bookselling chain’s chief executive James Daunt says he fears ‘going bust’ and that paying entry-level staff more would betray ‘basic principle’ the business runs on
Richard Lea
27, Feb, 2020 @4:16 PM
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