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In “Roman Stories,” written in Italian, nine protagonists have little in common except their foreignness.

This is not some placid, ideal garden, but a real one — edgy, animate and bustling.

Long a favorite to receive the award, Fosse has found acclaim for work that explores mortality and religion, and radiates serenity.

A one-woman show that used her date with a white hipster to talk about life, race, love and sex, led an editor to sign her to write two novels.

In “Brutalities: A Love Story,” Margo Steines chronicles her lifelong fixation with being hurt — and shows herself some compassion.

His writing is spare and existential, often focusing on the interior lives of rather solitary characters.

The Swedish Academy sends out thousands of invitations each year for professors and others in the literary world to nominate writers for the prize in a secretive and precise process.

McKenzie Funk’s “The Hank Show” follows the improbable career of one man, and the surveillance state he helped create.

While doing rescue work with snappers and tortoises, Sy Montgomery made a few observations that could come in handy in the literary world.

“I love it when I don’t have any plans the next day and end up reading until daybreak because I can’t sleep,” says the author, whose new novel is “The Premonition.” “It’s the best feeling.”