Veel prijzen deze week. Ook aan de andere kant van het Kanaal, want Alan Hollinghurst wint David Cohen Prize for Literature 2025. De winnaar krijgt 40.000 Britse ponden en ‘recognises a living writer from the UK or Republic of Ireland for a lifetime’s achievement in literature.’ Hollinghurst, schrijver van onder meer The Swimming-Pool Library, The Line of Beauty em Our Evenings is blij met de prijs:

I feel very happy, and deeply honoured, to be awarded The David Cohen Prize. It has always, to my mind, been the most significant British literary prize, because it takes account of everything a writer has done, and the writers it has rewarded in the past have been the giants, the exemplars of my own writing life. It’s extraordinary now to find myself joining that list, and to know that what I’ve done has been so well thought of; it feels to me too like the greatest encouragement to keep going.

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