With the Goldsmith's Prize we have another literary showpiece and if it can unearth, then shine the spotlight on talented authors like many others do, it will surely be a good thing.
In its many voices, languages and avatars, South Asian literature is beginning to look at its own reflection rather than viewing itself in the refracted approval of an imagined Western audience.
This week, Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for literature. The reaction of much of the world was: "Who?"
Last night Christopher Hitchens was memorialised with a special award by the Orwell Prize committee. The author, speaker and journalist, famous for...
Other than a fairly crucial commitment to brevity, what is it that makes a short story a short story? As the 2012 edition of the world's richest prize for the form comes to a conclusion, I spoke with this year's shortlist to get their own insights into the art and craft of writing short fiction.
If you can't imagine a world without great literature and fascinating ideas and intercultural understanding - and if you don't want to imagine such a world either - do your part and read translated literature. Go on. I dare you.
An award-winning historian is in the running for a prominent literary prize after her first foray into fiction. Stella Tillyard, who lectures at Qu...
