Booker Prize 2019: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo are joint winners

Evaristo is first black woman to win prize; Handmaid’s Tale sequel is second win for Atwood

Eileen Battersby’s favourite African writers

To mark Africa Day, Ireland’s annual celebration of its African community, The Irish Times literary correspondent picks her favourite African titles

Eileen Battersby’s favourite South African novels

To mark Freedom Day in South Africa, the Irish Times literary correspondent offers her selection of its finest literary works

George O’Brien: ‘Writing has taught me to be disciplined, to be patient, to persist’

Brought to Book Q&A: Irish author and academic on how he writes and what he reads

Author and anti-apartheid campaigner André Brink dies, aged 79

Critic of apartheid had ability to transform experience of racial politics into literature

Nobel laureate who wrote about injustices of apartheid

Nadine Gordimer: November 20th, 1923 - July 13th, 2014

Anti-apartheid author and Nobel winner Nadine Gordimer dies

Many of her stories dealt with South Africa’s segregated system under white-minority rule

Sometimes fiction is better off sticking to the facts

The story of the true-life murder of a mother and children is let down by unconvincing melodramatic subplots

What Mandela meant to me

Literary community bereft after ‘father of African literature’ dies

Chinua Achebe best known for breakthrough novel ‘Things fall Apart’