Collected: The Podcast: #507: Hanif Kureishi, celebrated novelist, screenwriter and playwright

In this special interview, cult author and RLF beneficiary Hanif Kureishi tells Paul Dodgson about working with David Bowie, why he has given up listening to music except for one particular song, and how he has rebuilt his writing process after the fall that left him paralysed in 2022. © Royal Literary Fund www.rlf.org.uk

RLF Writers’ News: June 2026

New books, productions, events, festival appearances and award news for our RLF and WritersMosaic writers for the month of June 2026.

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The Swing at the Edge of the World

There’s a version of me that never grew up.

Dominus Owen Markham
A Place To Put Your Thoughts - Dominus Owen Markham

It rarely announces itself as something important… the act of writing. Most people don’t sit down at a desk thinking, this will be good for my mental health. It’s usually far more ordinary than that.

Dominus Owen Markham