Michael Ondaatje

Special accolade celebrates 50th anniversary of the literary prize

Sharing the Man Booker International prize is proper recognition for the art form of translation, says translator Deborah Smith, winner of the Man Booker International prize along with with Korean author Han Kang for ‘The Vegetarian’

Canadian novelist Jane Urquhart, who had a cottage in Kerry for 20 years, has finally written a book set there. What took her so long?

Eileen Battersby: Europe’s streets lined with people too exhausted by six years of grief

‘I had to remould my brain to write “The Follow”. It involved three trips to Borneo and years of reading and studying and thinking hard about human beings and our place in the natural world’

With the week that’s in it, read up on the literary characters who take their name, if not their morals, from our patron saint

Irish crime and thriller writers have made quite a mark in recent years. Now it’s the turn of a new wave of Irish literary novelists. Five debut writers introduce their books

The castle is an apt setting for talks on the truth and lies of historical fiction

Atwood places her novels in the Jules Verne tradition of science fiction: within the realms of possibility