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It’s ordinary death — the bloke with a scythe — that stalks these stories, not an assassin

Kiran Desai’s surname was familiar to the world of literature when her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, won the Man Booker Prize in 2006. Her mother, Anita Desai, was already an accomplished novelist, who had been nominated for the Booker three times. The Inheritance of Loss was hailed as…

From an afterlife fantasy to a tale of loss in Mumbai, death is a recurring theme in this story collection – an echo of the novelist at his peak

He was left blind in one eye from the attack in New York.

Camilla quoted the ‘queen of the bonkbuster’ who has died aged 88.

Several of the author’s books, including ‘Satantango’ and ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’, have been adapted into feature films

Nobel academy cites Hungarian novelist for work that ‘in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art’

The Chinese and Hungarian writers are tied with odds of 10/1 – while Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are also in the running

Stevens writes about Rushdie in his new memoir, ‘Cat On The Road To Findout’

The intrepid musician has lived a fruitful life full of flings, faith and controversy

Charlie Kirk is dead. He was a champion of free speech and he died speaking freely. He had an extraordinary reach for the young of his generation – my son, a student, and my daughter, a teenager, knew all about him. I knew next to nothing until he was shot…