Ahmad Aboukhnegar, a little-known Egyptian writer of magical realism

They are among the most distinguished, productive and charming writers in the German-speaking world - and they are a couple: Dana Grigorcea and Perikles Monioudis

A.A. Dhand and Saima Mir write crime novels set in Bradford, a former textile city with a large Muslim/British/Asian community. They address migration and protest, and challenge racist and sexist stereotypes.

Muscat seen through a writer's eyes

One of Europe's last great storytellers has died. Ismail Kadaré chronicled a future of a past, with a mastery of language so crystalline it could cut like a scalpel

Encounters with Leonard Cohen in his Montreal