The English novelist Jim Crace has won the 20th Impac Dublin Literary Award, for his novel Harvest. The €100,000 prize is the largest for a novel published in English.

Success was a surprise to Jim Crace. Now, after 12 novels, he is bidding farewell to writing with his fittingly elegiac book Harvest. Declan Burke spoke to him.

I’m Not Really Here: A Life of Two Halves

ANYONE who reads The Guardian will be familiar with John Crace’s ‘Digested Reads’, where the journalist takes a well-known book and compresses it down to six or seven hundred words, a process that tends to isolate the good — and bad — aspects of the tome in question (try his filleting of Philip Roth’s ‘Exit Ghost’ for a taster).

A controversial 'EastEnders' storyline that left some fans unhappy at a popular character’s sudden death helped the soap win three TV awards.