The author on how the celebration of solitude in her Women’s prize-winning new novel, Piranesi, grew from her experience of a long illness Susanna Clarke’s subject is magic and her own story is a magical one too. Seventeen years after her bestselling, …
The new award from the Women’s prize should scrap its age limit
Literary prize culture favours young and marketable writers – and the new Futures scheme is simply adding to the problemLast week, the Women’s prize announced a new award in partnership with Good Housekeeping magazine. “Futures” will provide promotiona…