Oyinkan Braithwaite Nominated for Inaugural The Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature
The Future Awards, established in 2006, are a set of awards given by The Future Project, a social enterprise committed to human and capital development especially in Africa. Described by Forbes as the “most important awards for outstanding young Africans,” The Future Awards celebrate the outstanding achievements of young people between the ages of 18 […]
Oyinkan Braithwaite and Elaine Castillo listed on The Financial Times’ 30 of the planet’s most exciting young people
The Financial Times has released a list of 30 of the planet’s most exciting young people. The list features names to know from the worlds of tech, art, politics, film, music and books. In the writers category, Oyinkan Braithwaite and Elaine Castillo are listed alongside Guy Gunaratne, Yara Rodrigues Fowler and Ocean Vuong. Click here […]
My Sister, The Serial Killer wins Best First Novel at the 2019 Anthony Awards
In Dallas, Texas, at a gala celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bouchercon, the world mystery convention, the winners of the Anthony Awards were announced. The “Anthonys” honor the year’s best achievements in mystery and crime fiction. This is the thirty-fourth year the awards have been handed out, with winners selected by the thousands in attendance […]
Max Porter: Books don’t tend to make me cry. Sentimental TV adverts, on the other hand…
The author of Lanny and Grief is a Thing With Feathers on the influence of John Berger and his admiration for translators
Olivia Sudjic: Je mehr ich poste, desto schlechter fühle ich mich
Die Londonerin Olivia Sudjic, 31, hat einen Roman darüber geschrieben, wie das Internet die Psyche der Menschen verändert, seitdem gilt sie als Stimme ihrer Generation. Ein Gespräch über die Frage, wer im Netz alles so mitliest, warum es nötig ist, auf Instagram zwei Identitäten zu haben, und über die schwierige Suche nach sich selbst. Interview: Ilka […]
Helen Fielding in conversation with James Naughtie on BBC Radio 4 Bookclub: Bridget Jones’s Diary
To mark Bookclub’s 21st birthday Helen Fielding talks about her creation Bridget Jones, with the first novel in the series, Bridget Jones’s Diary. Bridget has now become an iconic figure in modern fiction. Bridget Jones started life as a weekly column in the pages of The Independent in 1995, when Fielding worked on the news […]
Bernardine Evaristo on the Illusion of Writer’s Block: An Interview with Literary Hub
Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other, which recently won the Booker Prize, is out now from Grove Atlantic. We asked her about writers’ block, her favorite books, and more. * Who do you most wish would read your book? Oprah. I don’t know if her book club has ever featured a novel or book about black Britain, […]
How a cash-strapped generation fell for the fantasy world of the Modern House
Why has an estate agency that specialises in design-led properties built such a big online following? Because it offers escapism at a time of towering property prices
Frank Tallis’ Vienna Blood to come to our screens later this month
Based on the best-selling Liebermann novels by Frank Tallis, Vienna Blood is to hit the small screen very soon. Across three feature length episodes, the drama follows Max Liebermann (played by Matthew Beard), a brilliant young doctor and Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt (Jürgen Maurer) as they solve Vienna’s most mysterious murder cases. You will be […]
Booker Prize Winner Girl, Woman, Other is Coming to America
The morning after Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize, for her novel “Girl, Woman, Other,” her American publisher, Grove Atlantic, announced that the book would come out in the United States a month earlier than previously scheduled — and that it was printing 50,000 more copies, up from an initial run of 10,000. Now the book is set […]