Elif Shafak

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“You would have found [virtue signallers] upbraiding people for agonising over a blazing Notre Dame while children were being bombed in Idlib.” Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA Wire
Kathy Sheridan: Virtue signalling drowns us in hopelessness

In all the tributes to Marian Finucane, the quality that probably crystallised her was fairness. To her, no human being – not even bankers, developers(...)

Margaret Attwood and Bernardine Evaristo, joint winners of the 2019 Booker Prize. Photographs: Getty Images
Booker Prize 2019: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo are joint winners

The literary world was taken by surprise tonight when the Booker Prize for 2019 was awarded to two books focusing on the experiences of women in socie(...)

Author Will Eaves, winner of the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize for Murmur, his novel inspired by the story of Alan Turing
Will Eaves wins Wellcome Book Prize for Alan Turing-inspired novel Murmur

Novelist Will Eaves has won the 2019 Wellcome Book Prize for Murmur, a novel which judges described as a “future classic”, and inspired by the legacy (...)

Edna O’Brien
100 books by women you have to read
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  • June 4, 2018, 16:14

The 2018 Hay Festival, in collaboration with The Pool, published this list of 100 books by women, including works by Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Maria(...)

Sally Rooney has won the 2017 ‘Sunday Times’/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award. Photograph Nick Bradshaw
Sally Rooney wins Young Writer of the Year award

Irish author Sally Rooney has won the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award for her first novel, Conversations With Friends (Faber &am(...)

Canadian author Malcolm Gladwell: from received morality to damage limitation. Photograph: Conor McCabe Photography
Dalkey Book Festival a delicious cocktail of politics and culture

The European Union is like the Eagles’ Hotel California, the world shifted on its axis with the release of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love, and everyone in(...)

Irish author Lisa McInerney has claimed the prestigious Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel, ‘The Glorious Heresies’, at the Royal Festival Hall London, England. File photograph: Ian West/PA Wire
Lisa McInerney wins Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction
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  • June 8, 2016, 19:54

Irish author Lisa McInerney has claimed the prestigious Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for her debut novel. The Glorious Heresies beat the other (...)