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Simon Prosser
@HamishH1931
Publishing Director: Hamish Hamilton & Penguin Books. Future Library trustee. Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature
- How to turn down lunch with a fascist — BERTRAND RUSSELL to Oswald Mosley, 1962
- Final two paragraphs of ARUNDHATI ROY’s FT essay today. It’s what we choose
- Upstairs writer’s room at Shakespeare & Company — windows open to the Paris night
- Power Cut in Aligarh as ARUNDHATI ROY speaks at a Women’s College yesterday. The students use their phones to light the hall. Arundhati silhouetted at front. #UtmostHappiness
- Many congratulations to ARUNDHATI ROY on winning the PEN Pinter Prize 2024 — Read her acceptance speech here:
- Bound proofs just in for HAN KANG’s haunting and visionary new novel ‘We Do Not Part’ — translated by e. yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris Publishing next February
- Congratulations to ARUNDHATI ROY! — winner of this year’s PEN/Pinter Prize. She says: ‘I wish Harold Pinter were with us today to write about the almost incomprehensible turn the world is taking. Since he isn’t, some of us must do our utmost to try to fill his shoes’
- Ali Smith’s SEASONAL — the four books meet for the first time now that Summer is here and the cycle complete
- Let there be light! ALI SMITH with the finished manuscript of Companion Piece in King’s Cross this afternoon —
- ZADIE SMITH by Tyler Mitchell for British Vogue, perfectly styled to conjure the spirit of new novel The Fraud — modernism meets the Victorian in England and Jamaica
