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Novelist

  • ‘I’d prefer a just world where my novels have no relevance beyond questions of art’: Siddhartha Deb

    ‘I’d prefer a just world where my novels have no relevance beyond questions of art’: Siddhartha Deb

    Amrita Dutta
    · Jun 03, 2023 · 08:30 am
  • ‘There have been nightmares. Those seem to be diminishing’: Salman Rushdie after his recovery

    ‘There have been nightmares. Those seem to be diminishing’: Salman Rushdie after his recovery

    Scroll Staff
    · Feb 07, 2023 · 01:28 pm
  • Hilary Mantel (1952-2022) was one of the great voices of historical fiction – and so much more

    Hilary Mantel (1952-2022) was one of the great voices of historical fiction – and so much more

    Dinah Birch, The Conversation
    · Sep 25, 2022 · 12:30 pm
  • Salman Rushdie wasn’t the first novelist someone tried to assassinate without reading their book

    Salman Rushdie wasn’t the first novelist someone tried to assassinate without reading their book

    Jonathan Bate, The Conversation
    · Aug 28, 2022 · 05:30 pm
  • Kiran Nagarkar (1942-2019): A writer both bawdy and lyrical, both irreverent and political

    Kiran Nagarkar (1942-2019): A writer both bawdy and lyrical, both irreverent and political

    Scroll Staff
    · Sep 05, 2019 · 10:39 pm
  • Danielle Steel writes for 20 hours a day. Four novelists weigh in on her gruelling work schedule

    Danielle Steel writes for 20 hours a day. Four novelists weigh in on her gruelling work schedule

    Sarah Corbett, The Conversation David Bishop, The Conversation Edward Hogan, The Conversation Liam Murray Bell, The Conversation
    · May 17, 2019 · 05:30 pm
  • ‘I prefer to be as little seen as possible’: Multiple award-winning novelist Anees Salim

    ‘I prefer to be as little seen as possible’: Multiple award-winning novelist Anees Salim

    Urvashi Bahuguna
    · Jan 20, 2019 · 08:30 am
  • Unfinished work of fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett destroyed by a steamroller

    Unfinished work of fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett destroyed by a steamroller

    Scroll Staff
    · Aug 30, 2017 · 06:54 pm