Indian-origin author Chetna Maroo's debut novel shortlisted for Booker Prize 2023London-based Indian-origin author Chetna Maroo's debut novel 'Western Lane' has been shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize. The book, set w...
22 Sep, 2023, 10.07 AM IST
Booker Prize 2023: Dazzling longlist unveiled with 'original and thrilling' literary gemsThe 2023 Booker Prize, which honors an English long-form fiction published in the UK or Ireland, revealed its longlist of finalists on Tues...
01 Aug, 2023, 10.29 PM IST
Indian-origin author Chetna Maroo’s debut novel makes the cut for Booker Prize longlistKenya-born Maroo's novel, set within the context of the British Gujarati milieu, has been praised by the Booker judges for its use of the s...
01 Aug, 2023, 08.43 PM IST
Tamil writer Perumal Murugan's novel 'Pyre' about caste-based hatred & violence makes it to International Booker 2023 longlistThe former college lecturer currently lives in Namakkal in Tamil Nadu and is working on a new novel.
15 Mar, 2023, 11.00 AM IST
Alan Garner, NoViolet Bulawayo & more: Booker Prize unveils 2022 shortlist including oldest finalist everThe shortlist saw an equal split of men and women battling for the prize which can provide a career-changing boost.
07 Sep, 2022, 11.01 AM IST
2022 JCB Prize longlist: Geetanjali Shree's Booker-winning 'Tomb of Sand', other translations ruleJCB Prize for Literature is an Indian literary award established in 2018.
06 Sep, 2022, 05.47 PM IST
Booker Prize 2022 longlist features 8 women, including 20-yr-old Leila Mottley; Alan Garner oldest nominee at 87Out of the 8 women, 3 are debut novelists.
27 Jul, 2022, 01.48 PM IST
'Tomb of Sand' writes history - Geetanjali Shree’s translation is 1st Hindi novel in Booker prize longlistThe novel was originally published as ‘Ret Samadhi’.
11 Mar, 2022, 12.32 PM IST
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel Prize for literatureThe Nobel prize recognised Gurnah's "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee...
07 Oct, 2021, 06.51 PM IST
Indian-origin author Sunjeev Sahota's 'China Room' enters the Booker Prize longlist for fictionA six-book shortlist will be announced on Sept 14, and the winner will be crowned on Nov 3 .
27 Jul, 2021, 11.34 AM IST
Eight debut works, 13 American authors in Booker Prize longlistHilary Mantel and Anne Tyler are among 13 writers on a U.S.-dominated list of contenders for the prestigious prize.
28 Jul, 2020, 08.23 AM IST
Man Booker Prize 2017: Mohsin Hamid, Paul Auster make it to the shortlist, Arundhati Roy misses outThe shortlist features three women and three men and covers a wide range of subjects.
13 Sep, 2017, 05.19 PM IST
Man Booker 2016 nominations out, Elena Ferrante, Orhan Pamuk in contentionThe Longlist has shortlisted 13 books from 155 contenders, and it consists of authors from 12 countries, written in 9 different language.
10 Mar, 2016, 05.53 PM IST
My Booker shortlist days are gone: Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie, chances of being shortlisted for the prestigious literary award are virtually over as young writers are now being preferred...
12 Oct, 2015, 09.47 PM IST
Two Indians among 13 authors long-listed for 2015 BookerAnuradha Roy has been picked for her third novel, 'Sleeping on Jupiter', and Sunjeev Sahota for 'The Year of the Runaways'.
29 Jul, 2015, 07.19 PM IST
Neel Mukherjee and three other authors on UK literary prize long-listFour Indian-origin authors including the Kolkata-born Neel Mukherjee, who lost out on this year's Booker Prize, have been long-listed for a...
16 Dec, 2014, 05.15 PM IST
Kolkata-born author Neel Mukherjee's novel in Booker Prize shortlistNeel Mukherjee's latest novel The Lives of Others, set in troubled Bengal of the 1960s has been shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Priz...
10 Sep, 2014, 04.03 PM IST