Mohamed Baraka’s fifth novel is a fascinating take on a perennial interest: the experience of the foreigner who finds himself in the West  (more...)

Gresh will discuss the memoirs of his mentor Éric Rouleau in an event at the American University in Cairo on 16 October   (more...)

Atwood won for The Testaments and Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other  (more...)

Austrian novelist, Peter Handke won the 2019 prize for his "influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”  (more...)

The Swedish Academy awarded the prize to Olga Tokarczuk for her "narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”  (more...)