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‘Men need liberation too’: do we need more male novelists?

As a small press launches dedicated to new male fiction, authors including Anne Enright and Nikesh Shukla ask if men are really being pushed out of publishing

The Guardian - UK

Novelist Anne Enright wins a $175k Windham-Campbell prize

Awarded to writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, 2025’s recipients include novelist Sigrid Nunez, playwright Roy Williams and poet Anthony V Capildeo

The Guardian - UK

Understanding Pennsylvania's undecideds

Bob Dreyfuss has been knocking on doors in the country's most targeted swing state

Salon

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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in September

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel audiobook review – preoccupations of a vibrant mind

Actor Lydia Leonard and novelist Anne Enright are among the narrators of the Wolf Hall author’s engaging essays on Madonna, Jane Austen and Princess Diana

The Guardian - UK

‘A beacon of brazenness and defiance’: Edna O’Brien remembered by Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín and more

The acclaimed author of The Country Girls, which was burned in the market square of her home town, has died aged 93. Here, Irish novelists pay tribute to a titanic figure who liberated their country’s fiction

The Guardian - UK

Edna O’Brien: her fearlessness paved the way for today’s female Irish writers

The County Clare-born author was telling stories of women and their sex lives 50 years before Sally Rooney was bornIrish author Edna O’Brien dies aged 93

The Guardian - UK

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Women’s prize for fiction 2024: six expert reviews of the shortlisted books

The Women’s prize for fiction has been championing women writers since it launched in 1996. It is one of the most influential and popular literary prizes in world with writers like Zadie Smith and Andrea Levy, among its past winners.

The Conversation

Anne Enright: ‘Give me Moby-Dick over Persuasion anytime’

The award-winning Irish author on her Women’s prize-shortlisted novel The Wren, the Wren, waylaying poet Paul Muldoon at an airport and why she no longer writes about her family

The Guardian - UK

11 brilliant writers on the books that made them who they are today

Anne Enright, Rory Stewart, Adam Kay and more authors from the Hay Festival lineup tell Ellie Harrison about the books that they’ve loved and felt inspired by

The Independent UK

Author Anne Enright on how women are captured on camera: ‘The lens has not lost its power to claim and possess’

Introducing a photography special, the author considers how women’s stories have always been told through pictures – including of their own making

The Guardian - UK

The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes review – follow your own path

A woman searching for solitude runs into her sisters in this brilliant, brainy tale

The Guardian - UK

‘Six spellbinding and thought-provoking novels’: why we chose the Women’s prize for fiction shortlist

From Sri Lanka to New South Wales and Shanghai, these wide-ranging stories are united by a compelling focus on women’s experience

The Guardian - UK

Anne Enright, Kate Grenville and Isabella Hammad shortlisted for Women’s prize for fiction

Capturing ‘an enormous breadth of the human experience’, the six shortlisted novels compete for a £30,000 prize to be awarded in June

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Poet Liz Berry’s The Home Child wins Writers’ prize book of the year

Anne Enright triumphs in fiction category for The Wren, The Wren and Observer art critic Laura Cumming wins non-fiction with Thunderclap: A Memoir of Life and Art and Sudden Death

The Guardian - UK

Jon Cruddas: ‘Labour has to rediscover its moral purpose’

The Labour MP and party historian on why he worries for Keir Starmer, the decline of social democracy, and his love of Seamus Heaney

The Guardian - UK

Anne Enright and Isabella Hammad make the Women’s prize for fiction longlist

Three Irish authors – including Claire Kilroy and Megan Nolan – and Booker-shortlisted Brit Chetna Maroo sit among the 16 nominees, eight of them debut novels

The Guardian - UK

Can you beat the authors? Take the bumper books quiz of 2023!

Answer fiendish literary questions from Bernardine Evaristo, Nina Stibbe, Jonathan Coe and more. Plus, spot the 10 books hidden on our festive ice rink

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Best books of 2023: our experts share the books that have stayed with them

We asked 20 of our regular contributors to nominate their favourite books of the year. Their choices were diverse, intriguing and sometimes surprising. Whether you’re looking for something relaxing or stimulating, educational or enchanting, this selection is a great way to plan your summer reading – or simply add to…

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Anne Enright’s bold new novel The Wren, The Wren is the work of a writer at the height of her power

In her essay Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown, published in 1924, Virginia Woolf famously proposed that the novel’s primary function is the expression of character. She presented the maxim: “it is only if the characters are real that the novel has any chance of surviving.”

The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright and The Girl In The Eagle’s Talons by Karin Smirnoff.

The Guardian - UK

The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright review – the female gaze

A ferocious sendup of a self-satisfied Irish poet and a brilliantly honest portrait of the women he leaves behind

The Guardian - UK

The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright review – a supple, spellbinding scrutiny of familial relationships

A dead poet’s daughter and granddaughter must come to terms with his troubling legacy in the Booker winner’s bravura new novel about language and connection

The Independent UK

Books of the Month: From Anne Enright’s The Wren, The Wren to Wifedom by Anna Funder

Martin Chilton reviews the biggest new books for August in our monthly column

The Guardian - UK

‘She trembled with the truths she had to tell’: Sinéad O’Connor by friends, fans and collaborators

Neil Jordan, Róisín Murphy, MC Lyte, Anne Enright and more share their memories of a uniquely talented, uncompromising artist, mother and ‘Celtic warrior’

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