On Wednesday a winner will be announced for the most lucrative short-story prize in the world

This week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we will have a daily Q&A with a debut author

Barrett is just second Irish winner of the €25,000 prize, after Edna O’Brien

When Yiyun Li left China, at the age of 24, she couldn’t speak English. Now, nearly two decades later, she is recognised as one of its most perceptive contemporary writers

The new novel by Yiyun Li, winner of the first Frank O’Connor award, is formidably intelligent and stylistically precise, but it lacks empathy