The novelist on strong women, ‘moral censorship’ and the ‘great wound’ of his life

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Bord Pleanála approves plans following objections from authors, poets and An Taisce

Evaristo is first black woman to win prize; Handmaid’s Tale sequel is second win for Atwood

The Norwegian crime writer gets up close and personal with killing in his latest thriller

Exclusive extract from Elsewhere: One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel

Authors, colleagues and friends pay tribute to the late Irish Times literary correspondent

First Irish writer to win prestigious £50,000 award since Anne Enright in 2007

From the archive: Eileen Battersby’s review of ‘The English Patient’ by Michael Ondaatje, originally published on September 12th, 1992

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