Meena Kandasamy: ‘If I was going to write my life story, I would condense that marriage to a footnote’

The author of Women’s prize shortlisted novel When I Hit You talks about the troubling line between memoir and fiction and how Brexit politics shaped her new book

Writing is tough. My book went so unnoticed I won an award for it

How do you cope with knowing that the project you poured years of your life into is not quite setting the world on fire?

‘There is a thirst for writers of mixed heritage’: what is France reading?

The bestseller lists are full of conflicts past and present. Is it any surprise in a country still traumatised by terrorist attacks?

The Rosewater Redemption by Tade Thompson review – stunning conclusion

Stories of alien invasion are rarely told from the perspective of the formerly colonised – this series set in a future Nigeria expands the SF genre

National Book Awards: Susan Choi wins fiction prize for Trust Exercise

Queer writer Edmund White was also honored with a medal for distinguished contribution to American letters

Jack the Ripper historian says media still disregard murder victims

Hallie Rubenhold, who won the Baillie Gifford prize for her study of the women killed in the Whitechapel murders, attacked the focus on lurid detail

Baillie Gifford prize won by Jack the Ripper study ‘reclaiming victims’ voices’

Hallie Rubenhold lands £50,000 award for The Five, a history that challenges assumption that the women were all sex workers

China threatens Sweden after Gui Minhai wins free speech award

Embassy hits out at judges and warns of ‘consequences’ after the Tucholsky prize goes to jailed Hong Kong publisher

One long sentence, 1,000 pages: Lucy Ellmann ‘masterpiece’ wins Goldsmiths prize

Ducks, Newburyport wins £10,000 prize for fiction that ‘breaks the mould’ of the novel, a month after missing out on the Booker

Melissa Lucashenko wins top prize at Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards with ‘risky’ novel

The $25,000 award for Too Much Lip follows her Miles Franklin win earlier this year

Else Fitzgerald wins 2019 Richell prize for short stories that ‘feel like a revelation’

Judges hail collection on the challenge of climate change, Nearly Curtains, as ‘a firework show of bursting ideas’

Richard Ford’s literary honour questioned by peers after history of aggressive behaviour

The Paris Review’s decision to give Ford the Hadada prize has been criticised in light of conduct that has included spitting on Colson Whitehead

Ending the War on Artisan Cheese begins battle for Oddest book title prize

Shortlist for this year’s Diagram prize also includes The Dirt Hole and Its Variations, Noah Gets Naked and How to Drink Without Drinking

The Guardian view on the healthy state of poetry: a reprimand to Trump and Johnson

Editorial: English-language poetry is in great health – and has much to tell us about our fragile, fraught times

Forward prize winner Fiona Benson: ‘It’s still taboo to talk about rape and women’s bodies’

The poet, who wrote her winning collection in almost a single sitting, talks about motherhood, sexual violence and using poetry to process trauma