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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...- 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...
- 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.
- Anuradha Roy bags coveted Sahitya Akademi Award, 22 others fetedShe received the award for her book 'All The Lives We Never Lived'.
- 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.
- 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.
- 'Tomb of Sand' writes history - Geetanjali Shree’s translation is 1st Hindi novel in Booker prize longlistThe novel was originally published as ‘Ret Samadhi’.
- Anthony Doerr, Richard Powers find spot on National Book Awards' fiction longlistHonorée Fanonne Jeffers's epic debut novel 'The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois', a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, is also on the list.
- Booker Prize shortlist unveiled, British Indian novelist Sunjeev Sahota misses outThe shortlist was chosen from 158 novels published in the UK or Ireland between October 2020 and September 2021. This year's judges include...
- Debut novels by Rijula Das, Krupa Ge make it to 2021 longlist of JCB Prize for LiteratureThe list also features three works of translation.
- Namita Gokhale's book 'The Blind Matriarch' will launch on September 27The book explores traditional bonds of an Indian joint family in the pandemic.
- 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 .
- International Booker Prize: 'The Employees', 'In Memory of Memory' among those shortlistedFour of this year's six shortlisted authors have never been published in English before.
- 2019, the year of debutant writers: From Madhuri Vijay to Roshan Ali, first-timers who basked in literary gloryMadhuri Vijay and Roshan Ali outshone well established writers.
- Writing non-fiction is an argument, but fiction's my first love: Arundhati RoyThe author said fiction is the connective tissue between many things.
- 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.
- Author Samanth Subramanian's 'This Divided Island' longlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize"The book tracks the rise of militant Buddhism, driven by monk politicians who hold extraordinary, extreme opinions."
- 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'.
- 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...
- No show for India at 82nd Academy AwardsThere were no Indian hopefuls left in this year's Oscar race after Indian musician AR Rahman's ouster and American director Gregg Helvey's ...
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