Philip Pullman on the end of the Costa Book Awards: a blow for children’s literature
Children’s writers used to be treated with slovenly contempt. The Whitbread and Costa showed we were worth taking seriously.
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International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree: “Women come into their own when they are older”
The author of Tomb of Sand on writing in Hindi, the politics of daily life, and why “people think English…
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Rowan Williams’s Diary: Judging the Booker Prize, the ethics of climate change, and the birth of our first grandchild
I look forward to telling my grandson his birth was toasted within a few hours alongside the 2021 Booker winner.
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Booker Prize-winner Damon Galgut: “South Africa is not a country that speaks with one voice”
The author on racism in the US, the long legacy of apartheid, and why his writing is not influenced by…
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Richard Powers’s Bewilderment is full of bold ideas – but strays into earnestness
Neuroscience, astrobiology and ecocide mix in the American author’s Booker-shortlisted new novel.
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