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Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura among authors longlisted for Women’s prize for fiction

Sixteen novels are in contention for the £30,000 award, now in its 31st year, with settings ranging from climate-ravaged islands to a near-future Kolkata

The Guardian - UK

Debut novel by Dutch author wins 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction

Yael van der Wouden won the award for her novel, The Safekeep, which explores repressed desire and the unresolved aftermath of the Holocaust.

Evening Standard

On my radar: Kit de Waal’s cultural highlights

The award-winning author on the folk musician who inspired her second novel, a Parisian celebration of black artists in France, and the wonder of Whitby Abbey

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The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal review – the power of kindness

Love and loss combine in this tender tale of how a mourning Caribbean mother cares for others

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The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal review – a warm story of second starts

A bereaved woman forms new relationships in the author’s first novel in seven years, a tender and funny tale of forgiveness

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The Women's Prize for Fiction shines a light on personal freedom and the search for human connection

Miranda July and debut author Aria Aber are shortlisted in this year's Women's Prize for Fiction

Marie Claire

Kit de Waal to headline new festival celebrating women writers over 50

Forthwrite, which takes place over two days this month, aims to dispel stereotypes around older women

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Conflict, imperialism, escape and the rise of Big Tech feature in Women’s Prize for Fiction 2025 longlist

Books by renowned authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are among the works selected by a panel of expert judges, along with nine debut writers

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Jonathan Coe and Kit de Waal among 35 writers of ‘protest zine’ defending threatened Birmingham libraries

Launched by poet Liz Berry and novelist Catherine O’Flynn, pieces for each of the city’s 35 branch libraries speak against a ‘tidal wave of market forces’

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m horrified by it. I think it’s appalling’: Kit de Waal on the crisis of cuts facing the arts

The bestselling author is in no doubt who is to blame when it comes to the state of the arts. She talks about the importance of culture, her inclusive book festival and using her voice to help

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Kit de Waal: ‘Life is too short to finish books I don’t like’

The writer on finding teenage inspiration in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Donald Sutherland’s reading of Hemingway and Sebastian Barry’s poetic prose

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Adam Kay: ‘Who knew Agatha Christie was totally incredible? OK, everybody, except me’

The doctor turned comedy writer on being inspired by Alan Bennett and comforted by David Sedaris

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Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood by Kit de Waal – review

The My Name Is Leon author’s evocative memoir of growing up in 1960s Moseley perfectly captures the dreams and reality of migration to postwar Birmingham

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Adjoa Andoh, Russell T Davies and Michaela Coel elected to Royal Society of Literature

The Bridgerton actor, Doctor Who writer and I May Destroy You creator are among 60 new fellows appointed to the UK’s charity for the advancement of literature

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The week in TV: Everything I Know About Love; We Own This City; My Name Is Leon; Avoidance

Dolly Alderton’s millennial memoir and Kit de Waal’s acclaimed social care novel are brought to the screen with aplomb, while David Simon’s new Baltimore cop drama is brutally compelling

The Guardian - UK

My Name Is Leon review – a small miracle of child’s-eye-view TV

Kit de Waal’s award-winning novel about a boy in foster care becomes a wise, touching and magical drama packed with stellar talent

Wales Online

My Name is Leon start time on BBC Two, cast, plot and how many episodes

BBC Two's adaptation of Kit de Waal’s lauded debut novel My Name is Leon

Evening Standard

My Name is Leon, BBC Two review: Adaptation of Kit de Waal’s novel is both heart-wrenching and uplifting

Newcomer Cole Martin is captivating as a young boy whose life is turned upside down when he is taken into foster care

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TV tonight: My Name is Leon is a beautiful story about a boy taken into care

The BBC adaptation of Kit de Waal’s novel sees Cole Martin star alongside Lenny Henry. Plus: which celebrity lives in a three-bed semi in Wales? Here’s what to watch tonight

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Lenny Henry criticises TV streamers’ commissioning tactics

Comedian says BBC approach is better as the focus is on the story being pitched rather than whether it will sell

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Shove over, stale males! Meet the working-class women storming TV

Television has been dominated by middle-class men for far too long. Now, a glorious wave of female drama makers are proudly putting their roots on screen

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‘They are totally smashing it!’ Bernardine Evaristo on the artistic triumph of older Black women

Artists, novelists, actors, poets: from the Venice Biennale to Bridgerton, Black women in their 50s and 60s are finally getting the recognition they deserve, says the pioneering Booker winner

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