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Finding your way without the social template of romantic love is a tough challenge, but writers from Deborah Levy to Hanya Yanagihara offer clues to how it can be done

Last year, all of literature’s big prizes went to small publishers. In a risk‑averse climate, edgy debuts and ‘tricky-to-sell’ foreign titles have found a home at the likes of Fitzcarraldo Editions and Sort Of Books

La célèbre auteure française et lauréate du prix Nobel nous parle de l’importance de la correspondance qu’elle reçoit de ses lecteurs et ses lectrices

The renowned French author and Nobel Prize winner on the value of readers’ letters

For decades, Annie Ernaux has written fearlessly about sex, abortion and illness – laying bare herself and society. Her deeply intimate and political work earned the French writer the Nobel Prize for literature last October. Ernaux spoke to FRANCE 24's Fatimata Wane at the Taormina book festival in Sicily, where…

The French writer’s lucid narration lends profundity to these scrappy home videos shot over a decade

Literary ambition, motherhood and a quietly strained marriage appear in the sweet, soft focus home movies of French author Annie Ernaux

In conversation with Sally Rooney at Charleston festival author says award has hindered her ability to focus on writing

The Mercury prize-winning musician on an inspirational rapper, a Nobel laureate’s views of Paris, where to find chillies and a Red Hot Chili Pepper

The French writer transforms her own life into uncompromising autofiction. With new translations, a film, and unwavering activism, the 82-year-old is living life to the full

The OpenAI CEO says his industry needs government intervention. Whether it’s a ploy or a plea for help, we should be concerned