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You’ve got to hand it to the Nobel Prize in Literature committee: its citations are masterpieces of brevity and precision. Entire lifetimes of tireless, painstaking effort, thousands of pages written over decades, are summed up in a statement of around 20 words.

The Nobel laureate’s riff on The Magic Mountain takes on a darkly surreal life of its own in this tale of a young man’s visit to a health resort

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

Old women in novels have too often been malign or feeble, but fiercer and more vital senior citizens can be found in authors from Agatha Christie to Elizabeth Strout

Complicité’s masterly take on Olga Tokarczuk’s eco-thriller is unforgettable; Daniel Rigby excels in Fo’s all too timely classic; and Silvio Berlusconi is in dire need of some good tunes

Simon McBurney directs a toweringly innovative adaptation of the eco-thriller by Nobel-winner Olga Tokarczuk

As Complicité’s Simon McBurney brings Olga Tokarczuk’s feminist detective story to the stage, the pair discuss its eccentric sleuth, isolated landscape and climate alarm

With its swathe of award-winning writers and distinctive blue covers, the independent press takes risks on boundary-pushing writing – and it’s paying off

It’s a good year to be a newcomer, at least if you dream of a National Book Award. Eight of the 10 nominees on the annual prizes’ fiction longlist, announced Friday by the National Book Foundation, are debut fiction authors. Their narratives include the making of an artist from a…