Tsitsi Dangarembga: ‘I am afraid. There have been abductions’
Four days after the Zimbabwean writer and film-maker made the Booker longlist, she was arrested. She talks about protest, Africa’s film industry and her hopes for her country
‘George Eliot’ joins 24 female authors making debuts under their real names
The Reclaim Her Name project, marking 25 years of the Women’s prize for fiction, will introduce titles including Middlemarch by Mary Ann Evans
At last, a Booker prize longlist I want to read
This list is remarkably different to past years, featuring several black authors and debut female writers. And yes, Hilary Mantel
Daisy Johnson: ‘It’s not an easy time to be looking at yourself or other people’
Ahead of her latest, unnerving novel Sisters, the youngest ever author shortlisted for the Booker discusses her fascination with horror, family and growing up on Harry Potter
Two friends, both up for the Booker prize: ‘We are exploring what it means to feel alien’
Brandon Taylor and C Pam Zhang, whose debuts are longlisted for this year’s Booker, talk about their close friendship, learning to write and dealing with grief
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Booker-longlisted author Tsitsi Dangarembga freed on bail in Zimbabwe
The novelist, whose book This Mournable Body was named as a finalist last week, had been arrested while taking part in anti-corruption protests
Arkady Martine wins Hugo for best novel, as George RR Martin hosts online ceremony
Debut novelist wins world’s top prize in science fiction for A Memory Called Empire, with Jeannette Ng and Neil Gaiman landing other categories
Where are the hotshot British male novelists? BAME authors may know
Ashley Hickson-Lovence, Abir Mukherjee, Courttia Newland, Guy Gunaratne, Paul Mendez and Okechukwu Nzelu on why British writers of colour are left out of the conversation
Booker prize-longlisted author Tsitsi Dangarembga arrested in Zimbabwe
Author of This Mournable Body detained as part of sweeping crackdown by security agencies
‘Utterly joyful’ Look Up! wins Waterstones children’s book of the year
Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola’s picture book about a science-mad young black girl trying to distract her brother from his phone takes £5,000 award
Booker nominee Avni Doshi: ‘Women feared my ambivalence towards motherhood’
Her venomous debut novel about a fraught mother/daughter relationship shocked India – and now it’s challenging Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel up for third Booker prize as 2020 longlist announced
Author of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy vies with 12 other contenders in a field marked by a high number of debuts
Irenosen Okojie wins the Caine prize for ‘stunning’ short story Grace Jones
Nigerian-British author says £10,000 award for African writing has instilled her with confidence as a black and female experimental writer
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