Novelists and poets, Bernardine Evaristo, Jeanette Winterson, Stephen Marche and others, consider the threats and thrilling possibilities of artificial intelligenceChatGPT seems to have blindsided us all. In less than a year it has proved that it can make writers redundant, which is one of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-11-11 09:00:30 UTC ]
In “Circus of Dreams,” the literary editor John Walsh writes about the bookish life in London when Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Jeanette Winterson and their generation were in the increasingly bright limelight. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-07-12 02:13:37 UTC ]
After previous seminars showcased work from Scotland and Wales, this year the focus is on writing from Northern Ireland. Chaired by novelist and non-fiction writer Glenn Patterson, director at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast – a familiar and popular name for British... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2022-02-16 12:14:57 UTC ]
More than 100 writers, artists, comedians and musicians will voice James Joyce’s seminal novel in celebration of its publication a century agoOne hundred years ago, in February 1922, Sylvia Beach, owner of the Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company, published James Joyce’s Ulysses, in full, for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-01-20 09:30:55 UTC ]
Jeanette Winterson has joined the online platform Substack and been named its new writer in residence for November. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-01 06:46:24 UTC ]
A new collection of rejigged tales gets much closer to the spirit of these stories than the ‘traditional’ versions we’re force-fed There’s a book called Politically Correct Bedtime Stories, written by James Finn Garner, which used to be on my parents’ shelves, and is now on mine. Published in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-11-04 09:00:13 UTC ]
This year's Polari Prize longlist sees titles from Jeanette Winterson, Dustin Lance Black and Joseph O'Connor in the running for the £2,000 award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-23 05:03:35 UTC ]
In 2012, the literary critic Suzi Feay lamented the lack of new lesbian voices in UK publishing. Describing what she saw as “a shortage of lesbian writers in Britain today”, she wondered who would follow in the footsteps of established authors like Ali Smith, Sarah Waters and Jeanette Winterson.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-22 12:20:04 UTC ]
Over 250 writers including Sally Rooney, Jeanette Winterson and George Saunders have thrown their support behind novelist Kamila Shamsie after a German literary prize was rescinded due to her support of an Israel boycott. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-23 11:12:04 UTC ]
The Booker Prize Foundation revealed the longlist for its literary award Tuesday, with Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Valeria Luiselli and Jeanette Winterson among the nominees. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-07-24 19:43:58 UTC ]
The "boomerang" nature of time was discussed at the Vintage for Change evening, along with teen revolution and the sensibilities of sexbots, as Jeanette Winterson and six other authors considered the “turbulent times” of present day. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ian McEwan and Jeanette Winterson are among the authors joining Hay Festival this year as the 2019 programme is unveiled, with a new EU project launching. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ian McEwan will join writers James Ellroy, Jeanette Winterson and Robert Macfarlane on the Southbank Centre’s Summer 2019 Literature Season, with a packed programme of more than 25 events taking place from April to August. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
This year's Hay Festival Winter Weekend, featuring writers such as Rose Tremain, Horatio Clare, and Jeanette Winterson, drew record ticket sales of over 9,000. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein will be published simultaneously by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Grove Atlantic in the US in autumn 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo, Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson will appear at the Manchester Literature Festival in October to help explore “divas, dissidents, pioneers and radicals”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jeanette Winterson has said that as a society "we've got our values all wrong" as she warned against further cuts to the arts ahead of the Chancellor’s autumn statement on 25th November. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
JK Rowling, Philip Pullman, Jeanette Winterson and tens of other authors have signed a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Members of the public have voted Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Wed, 28/09/2011 - 14:09 Ali Smith, Jeanette Winterson and film director John Waters have all been longlisted for the Green Carnation Prize, now in its second year. The prize, open to all LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) writers celebrates the best of modern gay... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]