writers
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Author origins: ‘My grandmother and her way of mothering us by telling us stories made me a writer’
Priya Hajela
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Women AutHer Awards announces winners, Marathi writer Urmila Pawar gets Lifetime Achievement Award
Scroll Staff
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‘Departure(s)’: Julian Barnes’s final novel is an emotionally charged farewell to readers
Rahul Singh
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Zoë Wicomb (1948–2025): The South African writer who rediscovered the ordinary
Saikat Majumdar
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This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
Gayathri Prabhu
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Sunday book pick: Eight iconic women writers inspire freedom and creativity in ‘A Life of One’s Own’
Sayari Debnath
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer: Hundred years of a fearless Indonesian literary icon
Somak Mukherjee
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‘Rebuilding with words is not a luxury’: Tabish Khair on writing after the war on Gaza
Tabish Khair
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The mystery of Snowa Borno: A Finnish woman who writes in Hindi, or a male writer’s nom de plume?
Saudamini Deo
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Booker Prize: Rediscovering the first female winner, the often-forgotten Bernice Rubens
Michelle Deininger, The Conversation
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From Padmavati Devi Phukanani to Indira Goswami, women have revolutionised Assamese literature
Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty
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A country where rulers won’t tolerate opposing voices, but writers refuse to be silenced
Gibson Ncube, The Conversation
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Why do writers go away to write? A founder of a writing retreat offers insights
Faiza Sultan Khan
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Watch: Wild magpie becomes author’s unlikely co-writer, ‘assisting’ her while she works on a book
Scroll Staff
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‘All I am is literature’: Franz Kafka’s diaries were the forge of his writing
Linda Daley, The Conversation
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Vinod Kumar Shukla: An artist forever seeking to be one with his conscientious creation
Nikhil Govind
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How Edgar Allan Poe came to be the champion of the awkward and misunderstood
Scott Peeples, The Conversation
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‘I turned my impatience into something useful’: Ruth Ozeki, winner of 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction
Sayari Debnath
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Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, others share their worst book signing events to comfort a new author
Scroll Staff
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‘Thrice marginalised’: Writer Nazia Akhtar on Urdu women writers of Hyderabad
Mallik Thatipalli