Articles from the author

As Spring is published, novelist Ali Smith explains why there’s more to them than Brexit

Ben Okri talks about adapting Albert Camus’s dark novel about the killing of an Arab for the stage and his days living on the streets

A star in Poland, Olga Tokarczuk is hotly tipped to win the Man Booker international prize. She talks about facing controversy and the armed bodyguards

From his debut film about the ‘criminally insane’ to his latest on New York’s public library, Frederick Wiseman is as committed to fighting injustice as ever

Anuradha Roy’s latest novel features artists, radicals and political upheaval drawn from real life. The Indian writer talks about social change

Jade Chang’s debut novel was conceived as the US fell into recession, and tells a story of living inside and outside the national dream

Competition from smartphones and readers sticking to well-known writers means novelists are suffering. So we must find ways better ways to enable them

Maylis de Kerangal, the French author and winner of the 2017 Wellcome prize for writing, on grief, heart surgery and surfing

Madeleine Thien, the Man Booker-shortlisted writer on a solitary childhood in Canada and daring to question the Chinese regime

Han Kang, the internationally-acclaimed South Korean novelist on confronting her country’s violent history

From commodity to colouring, fashions come and go in books

Britain’s Radio 4’s poet in residence on his journey from school dropout to poetry prizewinner