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A life in books and why prizes matter

Also this week: the art of rejecting authors and how all the best stories are true.

International Booker winner Georgi Gospodinov: “We’re living in the memory gap”

The Bulgarian novelist on the legacy of communism, the necessity of irony and why remembering is a political act.

Why we need the Women’s Prize for Non-fiction

We might be tempted to see prizes for women as less necessary with each passing year – but non-fiction is…

Elif Shafak’s Diary: Solidarity with Iranian women, Instagram anxiety, and a turn at the Booker Prize ceremony

An unexpected link to a schoolgirl killed in Afghanistan is a reminder that we are all citizens of the world.

Booker winner Shehan Karunatilaka: “You don’t know who you’re going to offend”

The Sri Lankan novelist on growing up amid civil war, turning trauma into satire, and winning the 2022 prize.

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.