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Romola Garai: ‘I’d question directors about nude scenes and they’d kick off’

The British actor talks to Jessie Thompson about performing Annie Ernaux’s masterpiece ‘The Years’ on stage, speaking out about the treatment of women in the industry, and why Britain’s attitude to rape is a disgrace

The Independent UK

‘Each time I read one of her books, I wanted to read more’: five actors on bringing Annie Ernaux’s memoir to the stage

As a play of the Nobel prize-winner’s memoir The Years opens in the UK, the actors playing her at different ages – including Deborah Findlay, Gina McKee and Romola Garai – talk about what the work means to them

The Guardian - UK

‘I had failed to prepare my children for their future’: Alice Robinson’s dystopia raises unsettling ethical questions

Alice Robinson’s third novel (and second foray into speculative fiction) begins with a mother’s bittersweet “second chance at life” – one she never asked for.

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Michael Magee: ‘There’s a disbelief at how I’ve ended up’

The Belfast novelist on moving between memoir and fiction in his prize-winning debut, turning down a spot on Granta’s best young British novelists list and why Lords of the Rings was his ‘gateway drug’

The Guardian - UK

The failure of Ivory Coast's ban on skin-lightening products

How the ban on skin-lightening products in Ivory Coast has not stopped thousands of women from buying these creams. This as health officials warn of risks such as diabetes and hypertension. Also we head to the Anbar region in Iraq which is undergoing massive reconstruction after the collapse of the…

France 24

From the Arctic Circle to the top of European theatre: director Eline Arbo on being ‘an outsider looking in’

The Norwegian theatremaker talks about succeeding Ivo van Hove as artistic director of one of the influential Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and staging classic plays as rock concerts

The Guardian - UK

Writer Annie Ernaux’s works are brought to photographic life in Paris

‘Exteriors’ explores Annie Ernaux’s writing in relationship to photographic mediums, at Maison Européenne de la Photographie until 25 May 2024

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Best French novels of all time for a window into the Gallic soul

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Evening Standard

Patrick Joyce: ‘The history of peasants is one of their silence or being silenced’

The academic and author on the lessons we can learn from those who work the land, acquiring a second career in his 70s – and how he ‘dialogues’ with the spirit of Seamus Heaney

The Guardian - UK

Édouard Louis: ‘All my writing is political – and all my life is, too’

Ten years on from his first, brutal autofiction about growing up gay in a working-class village, the writer talks about his new novel, being a class defector – and how to take on Marine Le Pen

The Guardian - UK

Novelist breaks with German publisher amid call for wider cultural boycott over Gaza

Lana Bastašić terminates contract, decrying ‘censorship’ of pro-Palestinian voices in Germany

The Guardian - UK

Nobel winner joins push to boycott German cultural institutions over Gaza

Annie Ernaux and Palestinian activist Mohammed El-Kurd among artists calling for strike against German organisations.

Al Jazeera

On my radar: Orhan Pamuk’s cultural highlights

The Nobel prize-winning novelist on the wonders of the Louvre, a powerful film adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s memoir and being mesmerised by Tacita Dean

The Guardian - UK

Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for giving 'voice to the unsayable'

Jon Fosse has just been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”.

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Evening Standard

Nobel Prize in literature won by Norwegian author Jon Fosse

The new laureate joins an illustrious list of past winners thanks to ‘his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable’

The Independent UK

Nobel Prize in literature to be announced in Stockholm

The Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Thursday, with the new laureate, or laureates, joining an illustrious list of past winners that ranges from Toni Morrison to Ernest Hemingway and Jean-Paul Sartre — who turned down the prize in 1964

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on European fiction in translation: still too little, too late

Editorial: Progress has been made. But as the wounds of Brexit heal, literature has a key role to play in building a new entente cordiale

The Guardian - UK

The Young Man by Annie Ernaux review – an expert dissection of sex, age and power

The Nobel winning French writer documents her affair with a much younger man

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Shame by Annie Ernaux review – the shocking incident that shaped her youth

The Nobel winner’s short memoir takes an episode of domestic violence when she was 12 as inspiration for a deft and powerful study of her childhood self

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 books about solitary living

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

The Guardian - UK

The indie publishing mavericks shaking up the UK books world

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

The Walrus

Une conversation avec Annie Ernaux

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 Walrus

In Conversation with Annie Ernaux

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

France 24

Nobel literature laureate Annie Ernaux on gender and social class

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 Guardian - UK

The Super 8 Years review – deeply personal documentary of Annie Ernaux’s family breakdown

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

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