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In a new collection of the author’s private letters and diaries, he lets loose on mental health, the Miles Franklin, and turning down an Australian Day honour. ‘I still wouldn’t accept one,’ he says now
The Nobel Prize for Literature is announced this morning, making this the most important day of the year. Alan Siegal on good writing.
For 50 years the Nobel laureate and double Booker prize winner has been dividing opinion with his novels on power, humanity, war, the death of ‘Jesus’ and dogs – many dogs
His spare, icily precise books explore humanity’s most serious themes, including South Africa’s legacy of apartheid. And not all of them are downers.
It’s the image of the breakdown of order, even more than the image of fires and floods, that fills me with horror.