Booker Prize

By PTI LONDON: London-based Indian-origin author Chetna Maroo's debut novel 'Western Lane' is among 13 books to make the cut for the 2023 Booker Prize longlist revealed on Tuesday. Kenya-born Maroo's novel, set…

By PTI NEW DELHI: International Booker-winning author Geetanjali Shree, Booker winner Marlon James, writers Amish and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, among others will participate in the 16th edition of the Jaipur…

Express News Service The world runs on formulas, in physics, chemistry and business. This applies to literary prizes too. On Monday, October 17, the Booker Prize for 2022 went to Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka’s…

Express News Service The protagonist of Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almedia provides his eulogy right at the beginning, “If you had a business card, this is what it would say. Maali Almeida.…

By AFP LONDON: Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka on Monday won Britain's Booker Prize for fiction for his work "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida", about a journalist murdered amid the country's sectarian strife.…

Issued on: 18/10/2022 - 00:54 Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize on Monday for his second novel "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida," about a dead war…

By Online Desk Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel has passed away at the age of 70. Mantel died “suddenly yet peacefully” surrounded by close family and friends, publisher HarperCollins said Friday. In a…

By PTI LONDON: Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of the Booker Prize-winning novel 'Midnight's Children', leads a list of over 40 professionals and community champions of Indian-origin to be honoured in the…

Express News Service To Paradise, Hanya Yanagihara’s tripartite novel coming after her Booker-shortlisted A Little Life, has a lot to live up to. Arranged in three thematically interrelated segments, all the action…

Express News Service Much has been written about the daddy’s girls and the momma’s boys of the world. The bond between fathers and sons has also propped up every now and then during proud moments of hand-overs and…