Alexis Wright has become the first person to twice win the Stella Prize for Literature and says she is not too shy to take questions from the floor at the Melbourne Writers Festival, even on the tricky Israel-Palestine question.
Kate Manne knows fat people earn less, don’t get promoted as often, and struggle to find pretty clothes. She’s tried every fad diet – but won’t ever take Ozempic.
Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie felt sure he was going to die when an assailant plunged a knife into his eye.
In times of crisis, there will always be courage, and there will always be love. Across Bondi Junction on Saturday, there were countless people prepared to give heroism a crack.
A new prize for Australian fiction; standing up to bullies on the literary festival circuit; a bold move by a legend of letters; and the Stella Prize shortlist, all in today’s column by literary editor Caroline Overington
She discovered her beloved husband’s many infidelities while he lay terminally ill in hospital. What did Kerstin Pilz do next?
In an extraordinary move, organisers will not allow any questions at all sessions, regardless of the topic, after festivals in Perth and Cairns were disrupted by anti-Israel protests.
Two champions of literature, The Australian and HarperCollins Australia, join forces to launch a major new annual literary prize for Australian storytelling.
Australian writers pen heartfelt letters to a young Wall Street Journal reporter trapped behind bars in Russia.
Literary editor Caroline Overington on a mother’s tribute to her son, the Sydney Writers Festival, and who is Australia’s busiest writer?
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