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Novelist Jeremy Cooper tells us how trips to the National Film Theatre (now BFI Southbank) inspired Brian, his study of a man who finds meaning and community in the habit of cinemagoing.
The Nobel Prize for Literature this year was awarded to the Norwegian novelist and playwright Jon Fosse (pictured). He has long been admired by anyone in the literary world keen to advertise their seriousness. The Canadian critic Randy Boyagoda, writing of Fosse’s Septology in the New York Times, said that he’d ‘come into awe and