Booker Prize charity launches new Children's Prize worth 50,000 poundsA new 50,000-pound Children's Booker Prize for fiction is launching. This award will celebrate the best contemporary fiction for children a...
24 Oct, 2025, 02.26 PM IST
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
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...
21 May, 2025, 08.48 AM IST
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...
24 May, 2023, 07.30 AM IST
International Booker Prize Collaborates with Mubi to Curate Films Tied to 2023 Nominee; Details hereThe winner of the 2023 International Booker Prize will be announced on May 23, and the corresponding film screening event at The Garden Cin...
16 May, 2023, 08.41 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
Who is Shehan Karunatilaka, the winner of Booker Prize 2022 for Fiction? Read on to know moreShehan Karunatilaka was honoured by Queen Consort Camilla and is now the second Sri Lankan author to receive the Booker Prize.
18 Oct, 2022, 06.04 PM IST
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.
28 May, 2022, 10.53 AM IST
Translation, the new (benign) colonialismTranslating quality contemporary literature in Indian languages into other Indian languages, English, Mandarin, Spanish, etc - languages wh...
27 May, 2022, 11.44 PM IST
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.
27 May, 2022, 10.49 AM IST
Novelist David Diop awarded International Booker for WWI novel, becomes first French winner of prizeThe book's translator Anna Moschovakis won half the £50,000 ($70,850) prize.
03 Jun, 2021, 08.53 AM IST
International Booker Prize long list: Writers from 4 continents make the cutThe six finalists are set to be revealed on April 22 and the winner on June 2.
31 Mar, 2021, 02.55 PM IST
29-year-old Marieke Lucas Rijneveld becomes youngest author to win International Booker PrizeThe Dutch writer's 'The Discomfort of Evening' was announced as the winner.
27 Aug, 2020, 10.30 AM IST
Author & Silicon Valley billionaire Michael Moritz, wife to sponsor Booker Prize for next five yearsCrankstart is the charity run by Moritz and his wife Harriet Heyman.
01 Mar, 2019, 04.06 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
Amitav Ghosh among 10 finalists for International Booker prizeKolkata born, 58-year-old Ghosh had narrowly missed out on the Booker Prize back in 2008 when he was shortlisted for his work 'Sea of Poppi...
24 Mar, 2015, 04.43 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