David Malouf
British writer Jim Crace has won this year’s IMPAC award for his novel Harvest.
Jim Crace wins IMPAC award for outstanding Harvest

This year’s International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award has been won by the revered British writer Jim Crace with his dramatic pastoral Harvest. He is (...)

David Malouf: poet and storyteller, he is one of the world’s finest writers and the surest way to experience his rare art is to simply read all of his elegant, graceful work. Photograph: Michael Stuparyk / Toronto Star via Getty Images
Eileen Battersby’s favourite Australian fiction

Early in the morning of January 26th, 1788, Captain Arthur Phillips, of the First Fleet and skipper of HMS Supply, rowed into Sydney Cove, Port Jac(...)

An eloquent, shocking memorial: The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Chance often seems to favour Dorrigo Evans, the remote central character of the Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan’s Homeric sixth novel, an epic about(...)

Tim Winton: gliding between the formal and the colloquial. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
The perils of not letting go

Even boy wonders need time. The Australian novelist Tim Winton decided early in life that he wanted to do two things: write books and be a policeman, (...)

Sinan Antoon: longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014
Brought to Book: Sinan Antoon on his literary life
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  • April 21, 2014, 01:00

Sinan Antoon is author of The Corpse Washer (Yale University Press), translated from Arabic by the author and recently longlisted for the Independe(...)