Author Spotlight
Intimate features on the writers shaping literature today — their books, their craft, and the ideas that drive them.
Author of the Year 2026
United Kingdom
Eleanor Vance has spent four decades quietly redefining the literary novel. Her work moves between intimate domestic detail and the vast machinery of memory, earning her a devoted global readership and a place on every major shortlist.
A novel is just a long act of paying attention. The reader teaches me what I actually wrote.
Selected works
Debut Spotlight
United States
Marcus Bell burst onto the scene with a debut seven years in the making — a sprawling, tender portrait of a city that never sleeps. Critics called it the most assured first novel of the decade.
I wrote the book I needed to read at 2 a.m. when the whole world felt asleep.
Translator & Novelist
India
Equal parts novelist and translator, Priya Anand has carried dozens of voices across languages while building a luminous body of original work rooted in the Western Ghats of her childhood.
Translation taught me that every sentence has a heartbeat. My job is to keep it beating.