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Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp becomes first Kannada book to win International Booker Prize 2025Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp has become the first Kannada book to win the International Booker Prize, a prestigious award recognising translat...- Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov wins International Booker Prize for darkly comic memory novelGospodinov, 55, said he began writing his book about "the weaponization of nostalgia" in 2016, the year of the election of Donald Trump and...
- 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.
- 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.
- Jaipur Literature Festival's 16th edition to return on January 19; Nobel, Booker winners to take partThe fest is expected to see participation by over 250 authors, politicians & pop-culture icons.
- 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.
- View: Authors have to tread a fine line between being reflective and responsive"If she can't have the time to sign it, why should I spare the time to read it?" the journalist said to me, only half rhetorically. Her log...
- Do mind your language, and of others tooHe summed up his mistrust of the verbal in the famous conclusion to his 1921 magnum opus, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, 'Whereof we canno...
- Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree credited her English translator: Here's why they deserve all the praiseTranslating literature isn't a mere technical exercise, subbing one word for another.
- Booker Prize for Geetanjali Shree's 'Tomb of Sand' opens new opportunities for Hindi writers'Tomb of Sand' is the first Hindi-to-English' translation book to receive the coveted recognition.
- Translation, the new (benign) colonialismTranslating quality contemporary literature in Indian languages into other Indian languages, English, Mandarin, Spanish, etc - languages wh...
- Beyond Booker: 'Tomb of Sand' writer Geetanjali Shree, a history academic, is a theatre enthusiast & loves vintage Hindi film musicA doctorate in history, the 64-year-old has five collections of short stories and five novels published so far.
- Geetanjali Shree's ‘Tomb of Sand’ becomes the 1st Hindi novel to win International Booker PrizeThe New Delhi-based writer said she was “completely overwhelmed” as she accepted her prize.
- 'Tomb of Sand' writes history - Geetanjali Shree’s translation is 1st Hindi novel in Booker prize longlistThe novel was originally published as ‘Ret Samadhi’.
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