M Zola remarked that it surprised him that no novelist had depicted the great city thoroughly.
In Wales, the National Theatre is working with poet and novelist Owen Sheers in ancient woodland, inspired by his poem Mametz Wood, which tells of the battle in which 4,000 of the 38th Welsh division were killed or wounded.
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André Brink, the influential campaigning South African novelist and playwright, has died.
Miliband is addressing the great and the good of the arts world: there's film director Stephen Frears, novelist Hanif Kureishi, sculptor Anish Kapoor, artistic director Jude Kelly.
But Self is not just a novelist but also a professor of contemporary thought at Brunel University.
I walked and I walked, I dug through the archives, listened to a thousand stories about Canberra – that stage for national debate, machination, intrigue and domestic life – and I thought "maybe if I just... ....... "There is no room for the novelist to exercise imagination".
The Twilight novelist heads a strong performance from young adult writers, with Percy Jackson writer Rick Riordan ($21m), Wimpy Kid creator Jeff Kinney ($17m) and Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins ($10m) all appearing on the Forbes list for the first time.
A series of unknown poems by the novelist and subversive essayist Angela Carter, discovered at her former London home, have revealed a previously unknown passion that casts new light on her development as a novelist.
Stella Duffy, a novelist and creator of the Fun Palaces festivals, told the Guardian that the protection of copyright gave her a pension.
Actually, there is so much Gatiss looming on TV, especially on BBC4, that by November viewers may well be sick of the Sedgefield-born novelist, actor, screenwriter and League of Gentlemen star.
