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The Atonement author has defended fellow writer Rowling, who has faced abuse and threats for her views on the trans debate

Facts on the Nobel Prize in Literature

The Swedish Academy gave the award to French memoirist Annie Ernaux. An icon of autobiographical fiction, the author of "The Years" joins the ranks of other prestigious figures in the literary scene.

Committee cites her courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory

Nobel Prize winners were announced, meet Annie Ernaux who won for literature.

People want the most prestigious award for literature to make a political statement. It complies only in unpredictable and inscrutable ways.

Guardian photographer and former head of photography Eamonn McCabe has died at 74. We look back at his iconic work

Alan chats to author Gabrielle Mullarkey, who discusses her stories, writing and what fiction means to her.

The ending of apartheid disrupted the Afrikaner identity. Afrikaners had to, and still have to, find ways to adapt, Elmien du Plessis said in her inaugural lecture as a full professor at North-West University.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author recommends works by Bruce Chatwin, Gerald Durrell, and more