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‘Now more relevant than ever’: how Virginia Woolf reclaimed the cultural zeitgeist Virginia Woolf

She has long been admired by students of English literature, but 85 years after her death, Virginia Woolf has burst out of the seminar room to become an unexpected cultural phenomenon. The author of Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, whose innovative prose helped redefine the modern novel, is finding a new audience through a

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‘Failure was my thing’: Women’s Award winner Virginia Evans on her long journey to success Women’s Award for Fiction

JWhen I was about to interview this year’s Women’s Prize winner, the first American novelist Virginia Evans, at a drizzly evening party on a London leafy square, we were interrupted because someone wanted to congratulate her. The fan is Richard Curtis. A warm-hearted cry with a sprinkle of gentle humor, Evans’s award-winning novel The Correspondent

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