Mutiny brews in French bookshops over Hachette owner’s media grip
Booksellers take stand against influence of conservative billionaire by limiting orders of his company’s books and placing them on lower shelves A conservative Catholic billionaire...
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Rediscovered, a young English novelist’s warning of the Nazi threat
Crooked Cross, Sally Carson’s ‘electrifying masterpiece’ from 1934, to be republished Sally Carson was not an oracle or a prophet, just a young woman from...
German artists sign open letter against TV show host accused of sexism
Choice of Thilo Mischke, author of Around the World In 80 Women, for ARD’s flagship arts show criticised More than 100 prominent German writers and...
Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer
The Pulitzer prize-shortlisted novelist behind books including There There and Wandering Stars will pen a manuscript that won’t be published until 2114 The next book...
Thousands of Albanians honour author Ismail Kadare in Tirana
PM pays tribute to country’s best-known novelist as coffin is covered in national flag and flowers Thousands of Albanians have gathered in Tirana to pay...
‘I miss my solitude’: Booker winner Paul Lynch says he is a ‘social introvert’
Author of novel Prophet Song about an imagined fascist Ireland tells Hay audience he is not a political writer “I miss my solitude,” last year’s...
Amsterdam to mark role of tram system in transportation of Jews to death camps
Documentary on deportation of 48,000 Jewish Amsterdammers during Holocaust prompts city to act On 8 August 1944, an Amsterdam tram took Anne Frank from Weteringschans...
‘It’s about being able to say goodbye’: Spanish graphic novel explores early Franco-era reprisals
The Abyss of Forgetting chronicles a woman’s struggle to find remains of her father who was murdered after civil war At the beginning of the...
‘It’s a golden age’: poetry flourishes in Ukraine – but at a terrible price
Conflict has changed Ukrainian poetry and boosted interest at home and abroad, but several poets have died or disappeared A year ago, the poet Borys...
