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RESPECTED AUTHOR WROTE ABOUT HER EARLY LIFE IN NAZI GERMANY; Part of the Franco-Ontarian literary community, she penned autobiographical fiction in idiosyncratic French that sometimes followed German rules of grammar, and her work was infused with themes of social justice and women's rights

• Authors : Cullingham, James

• Source: Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada). October 27, 2022, B18

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In brief: Manchester Happened; Freshwater; Zonal Marking -- reviews; Subtle stories from Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, autobiographical fiction from Akwaeke Emezi and a fascinating football study from Michael Cox

• Source: The Observer (London, England). June 2, 2019

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Saturday Review: Profile: Rose Tremain: Costume dramatist: She wanted to be a writer since childhood but avoided the conventional route of autobiographical fiction. Though some of her books have contemporary settings, it is as a historical novelist that she is best known. Nineteenth century New Zealand provides the backdrop for her new work. Susanna Rustin reports

• Authors : Susanna Rustin

• Source: The Guardian (London, England). May 10, 2003, p20

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The Doll by Ismail Kadare review -- a fascinating study of difficult love; The Albanian author explores his relationship with his mother and bittersweet memories of home

• Source: The Guardian (London, England). January 9, 2020

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Fleeing Home, but Not Homophobia

• Authors : Green, Jesse

• Source: The New York Times. November 19, 2019, C1

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George Feifer, journalist and author who chronicled the Soviet Union, dies at 85

• Authors : Smith, Harrison

• Source: The Washington Post. November 18, 2019

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Hisham Matar: 'Writing is both the easiest and the most difficult thing'; The Libyan prize-winning author on how art helped him cope with his father's disappearance -- and the joys of Proust

• Source: The Observer (London, England). October 21, 2019

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Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest work to remain unseen until 2114; After concluding his bestselling My Struggle sequence, he will write a work for the Future Library, alongside previous contributors Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell

• Source: The Guardian (London, England). October 20, 2019

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How to Build a Girl review: Caitlin Moran memoir becomes funny and generous film; Beanie Feldstein nails the Wolverhampton accent as a lightly-fictionalised Moran/Julie Burchill hybrid in this warm hearted and acid tongued tale of growing up into a gunslinging music journalist

• Source: The Guardian (London, England). September 15, 2019

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Martin Amis novels -- ranked! As literature's oldest enfant terrible turns 70, John Self, who took his pen name from an Amis character, revisits the collected works; As literature's oldest enfant terrible turns 70, John Self, who took his pen name from an Amis character, revisits the collected works

• Source: The Guardian (London, England). August 24, 2019

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