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“If you need cancer to tell you how to live, there’s something wrong with you. Something worse than cancer.”

‘If you need cancer to tell you how to live, there’s something wrong with you’

Irish writer Colm Tóibín on surviving cancer and US politics, overcoming a childhood stammer – and the indecency of looking too much in the mirror.

  • Benjamin Law

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Natasha Lester has a thing for Dior dresses from the 1990s.

‘I’m obsessed with this dress’: Author Natasha Lester’s vintage hunt

She wrote a book about the house of Dior. But when it comes to everyday dressing, there’s a blazer Lester can’t go without.

  • Georgie Gordon
Wanda Gibson, 79, has won the Victorian Prize for Literature at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.

First-time author makes history by winning richest literary prize – with a kids’ book

The 79-year-old great-grandmother from Far North Queensland hadn’t even planned to write a book.

  • Kylie Northover
“Many statues celebrate people who are not – it seems to me – worth celebrating.”

Long before he won a Nobel Prize, this author lugged bodies around in a hospital

Tanzanian-British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah on running out of money – and his take on the toppling of statues of controversial historical figures.

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“Everything’s political. You’re either for the status quo or against it, and both are political positions.”

‘Never again’: What Melissa Lucashenko says after writing each book

The Walkley- and Miles Franklin-winning author on feeling the heat, climate protest – and being able to smash her way out of a flooded car.

  • Benjamin Law
Best-selling author Jaqueline Bublitz says she has a tendency to catastrophise.

Crime writer Jacqueline Bublitz gives a voice to forgotten women

The New Zealand-born author was warned off writing from a dead woman’s perspective but ignored the advice.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
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Author Melissa Lucashenko has won the Waverley Council NIB award with her novel Edenglassie.

Author pledges prizemoney to help family out of homelessness

Melissa Lucashenko says she will share the proceeds of her latest literary prize with struggling family members.

  • Linda Morris
Richard Flanagan calls Question 7 a “love note to my parents and my island home”.

Richard Flanagan knocks back $100k literature prize over sponsor’s fossil fuel links

Flanagan was awarded the Baillie Gifford Prize for his latest book at a ceremony in London.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Charlotte Wood arrives at the Booker ceremony.

When it comes to the Booker, winning isn’t the only prize

The Booker bump is real, and sales of Stone Yard Devotional have rocketed.

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Samantha Harvey speaks after winning the Booker Prize)

Samantha Harvey wins 2024 Booker Prize

The world’s most influential prize for a single work of fiction has been announced in London this morning. Australian Charlotte Wood was among six authors shortlisted, but an English author took out the award.

  • Kerrie O'Brien

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