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
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
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.
18 Sep, 2021, 10.18 AM IST
Debut novels by Rijula Das, Krupa Ge make it to 2021 longlist of JCB Prize for LiteratureThe list also features three works of translation.
07 Sep, 2021, 02.03 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
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.
27 Dec, 2019, 01.47 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
Mark Tully stresses on translation of books from regional languagesMark Tully has stressed on the need for more and more writings in regional languages to be translated into English saying there is lot to b...
25 Oct, 2015, 02.56 PM IST
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."
22 Sep, 2015, 12.32 PM IST
ET Startup Awards 2015: The methodology of selectionThe Jio Economic Times Startup Awards, the supreme honours in Indian entrepreneursh ip, are decided after a rigorous process spanning weeks...
14 Aug, 2015, 09.13 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
Active marketing important in publishing: Cyrus MistryHe believes his first book "The Radiance of Ashes" published in 2005, could have got more attention with more active marketing.
12 Nov, 2013, 01.59 PM IST