The playwright Tom Stoppard has won the David Cohen prize for a lifetime’s achievement in literature, hailed as a “giant of 20th-century British drama” with an “outstanding and enduring body of unfailingly creative, innovative and brilliant work”. I’m never convinced it will work out that way. History is full of the names of writers who at one time seemed to be permanently established and who slowly disappeared from view. “I’m trying to be [inspired by current events]. And I’m trying to write one … It’s definitely a challenge.

Source: The Guardian November 08, 2017 19:30 UTC