Meet the Writers

Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan: Exiled voices on Russia

Karin Slaughter on banned books and the fight for truth

The women redefining literary festivals

Nick Harkaway and the legacy of Le Carré

Jean McNeil on bearing witness to a disappearing world

Guadalupe Nettel on human nature in fiction

C K Stead at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival

Karim Kattan on writing between languages and landscapes

Michael and Matariki Bennett at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival

Damian Le Bas on writing between worlds

Agustina Bazterrica at Hay Festival 2025

Esther Freud on family, fiction and healing

Damien Wilkins at the 2025 Auckland Writers Festival

Eliza Reid on crafting her first mystery

Meike Ziervogel on her humanitarian and literary drive

The Winners of the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction

Miranda Cowley Heller on what lies beneath art and memory

Ewan Morrison on AI and its side effects

Tiffany Watt Smith on female friendships

Jeremy Vine: Broadcasting and the stories that matter

Ahmed Alnaouq: the voices of Gaza beyond the headlines

Lynda La Plante and the art of crime writing

Jenny Mustard on writing literary fiction

AC Grayling and making peace in the culture wars

Rachel Shabi and the complexities of antisemitism

Stephen May’s reimagination of Victor Grayson

Natasha Brown on the effect of language

Abdulrazak Gurnah and Zanzibar’s multicultural history

Lauren Markham at the Lannan Literary Festival

Janet de Neefe’s cultural ventures in Bali

Tash Aw on writing the reality of Southeast Asia

Ram Murali at Galle Literary Festival 2025

Benjamin Moser at Jaipur Literature Festival 2025

Sandip Roy at the 2025 Kolkata Literary Meet

Angelo Tijssens: from the silver screen to the short novel

Maggie Mackellar: the healing power of nature

Caryl Phillips’s snapshot of the Windrush Generation

Charles Hecker: Russia’s zero-sum game

This year’s highlight: Zeinab Badawi

The women behind Charleston Literary Festival

Julie Taymor: the pride of writing for film and stage

Lindsey Hilsum’s world in poems

Namita Gokhale

2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024: Richard Flanagan

The musical adventures of Mike Batt

Yulia Mykytenko and her hope for Ukraine

Jan Gradvall’s ties with Abba

Gabriel Gatehouse

Peter Godwin

Lee Mylne