Mysuru Dasara 'secular', 'cultural' festival, says Siddaramaiah; Defends invite to Banu MushtaqKarnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah defended inviting International Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq to inaugurate Mysuru Dasara, emphasi...
31 Aug, 2025, 03.37 PM IST
British writer Samantha Harvey's space-station novel 'Orbital' wins the Booker Prize for fictionSamantha Harvey, a British author, was awarded the Booker Prize for her novel "Orbital." The book, set on the International Space Station, ...
13 Nov, 2024, 06.49 AM IST
Stars of Literature Converge: Spectacular lineup announced for Cheltenham Literature Festival 2023The main attractions and more than 500 events at the Times and Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival 2023. Kow more about it.
16 Aug, 2023, 07.32 PM 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
International Booker Prize jury announces shortlist; check out the ‘very cool’ candidatesThe winner will be announced on May 23, 2023. The prize money will be shared between the author and the translator.
20 Apr, 2023, 10.07 AM IST
Sri-Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka bags Booker Prize 2022 for his magnum opus ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’The Sri-Lankan author was awarded the trophy by Camilla, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom.
18 Oct, 2022, 10.14 AM IST
UK’s Queen Consort Camilla to present Booker Prize for 2022On Monday, the Booker Prize Foundation will conduct its first significant event since 2019 and the Queen Consort Camilla will deliver the p...
17 Oct, 2022, 09.08 PM IST
One of 6 novels set to be crowned 2022 Booker Prize winnerThe winner will receive their award from Camilla, the queen consort, during a ceremony at London's Roundhouse. It is the first fully in-per...
17 Oct, 2022, 08.38 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
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
Indian-origin author Avni Doshi's 2020 Booker Prize race edges to a closeDoshi, born in the US and now living in Dubai, is in the running for the 50,000-pound prize alongside Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Dangarembga ...
19 Nov, 2020, 11.35 PM IST
Margaret Atwood's 'The Testaments' favourite choice to win Booker Prize in fiction categoryThe author had won a Booker for 'The Blind Assassin' in 2000.
14 Oct, 2019, 07.26 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
Opening up Booker Prize to those outside Commonwealth countriesThe Booker allows the citizen of any country writing a novel in English and published by a UK publisher — both kosher club rules — to make ...
20 Nov, 2014, 04.25 PM IST
Neel Mukherjee tipped to bag Booker Prize on TuesdayNeel Mukherjee is tipped to win the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel 'The Lives of Others', according to the odds by William Hill, one o...
14 Oct, 2014, 12.35 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
- Lokpal stir: Anna 'propped up as saint', says Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy on Tuesday cast doubts over Anna Hazare's anti-graft campaign saying the civil society's Jan Lokpal Bill is a "dangerous piec...
30 Aug, 2011, 10.10 PM IST