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Booker Prize 2024: Samantha Harvey’s Orbital becomes first space novel to win
Samantha Harvey's Orbital just won the 2024 Booker Prize, read about all the records the ‘space pastoral’ novel broke
Published on Nov 13, 2024 01:46 PM IST
Aadrika Sominder
Trust the divine plans
The human intellect is limited in its ability to understand what God has planned. Only when these plans become evident in some tangible form can humans perceive them
Updated on Jul 07, 2024 05:22 AM IST
Sonika Sethi
Germany's Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker Prize
Erpenbeck's novel "Kairos" depicts a turbulent love story in the final years of communist East Germany.
Published on May 22, 2024 11:17 AM IST
Deutsche Welle | Posted by Tapatrisha Das
Shortest book, oldest author in this year’s Booker Prize shortlist
Former British Museum director Neil MacGregor, who is chairing the judging panel, said several of the books are inspired by real events and “address long national histories of cruelty and injustice, in Sri Lanka and Ireland, Zimbabwe and the United States.”
Updated on Sep 08, 2022 07:50 AM IST
PTI | , London
Jeet Thayil: Versatile wordsmith, poet and novelist
Jeet Thayil first novel, Narcopolis, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and The Hindu Literary Prize.
Updated on Oct 28, 2020 02:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Zadie Smith’s new volume of essays to release this August; e-book to be out in July
Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation.
Updated on Jun 13, 2020 07:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | hindustantimes.com | Edited by Saumya Sharma
Language is my friend, fiction my first love: Arundhati Roy
The 1997 Booker Prize-winner, who is equally at ease writing scathing essays, says she is a “disciplined writer” whose heart lies in fiction as it is a “connective tissue” between many things which are sometimes looked at or studied in isolation.
Updated on Jan 31, 2019 05:41 PM IST
Press Trust of India | Press Trust of India
It’s the new age of storytelling, with possibilities we had never imagined
It has released content – be it literature, cinema, television, graphic novels, or video games – from its straightjacket
Updated on Jan 19, 2019 02:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
‘Milkman’ by Anna Burns wins Man Booker Prize 2018
Set in an unnamed city during the troubles of Northern Ireland, the ‘Milkman’ tells the coming-of-age story of a young girl’s affair with an older man.
Updated on Oct 17, 2018 11:19 AM IST
Reuters | Reuters, London
Sabrina by Nick Drnaso: The first-ever graphic novel in the running for Man Booker Prize 2018
This is the first time in the history of the Man Booker awards that a graphic novel has been nominated.
Updated on Oct 16, 2018 01:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Saumya Sharma
Michael Ondaatje in the long list for Man Booker Prize 2018
This was another year when no Indian writer figured in the long list for the £50,000 prize.
Updated on Sep 25, 2018 05:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Delhi | Prasun Sonwalkar, London
Here are the list of 13 books which are part of the Man Booker Prize 2018
The Man Booker Prize list also includes graphic novels for the first time in decades, as Nick Drnaso’s critically acclaimed graphic novel Sabrina has been added to the longlist.
Updated on Sep 25, 2018 05:17 PM IST
Asian News International | Asian News International, Washington D.c.
Michael Ondaatje named in Man Booker Prize long list, winner to be announced on October 16
Ondaatje’s ‘The English Patient,’ which won the Booker in 1992, was awarded the Golden Man Book this month to mark the prize’s 50th anniversary.
Updated on Jul 24, 2018 04:14 PM IST
Associated Press | Associated Press, London
Not Naipaul: Michael Ondaatje’s ‘The English Patient’ wins ‘best of 50’ Booker prize
Sri Lanka-born Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje’s novel The English Patient has won the Golden Man Booker.
Updated on Jul 10, 2018 08:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Prasun Sonwalkar, London
Review: The Only Story by Julian Barnes
Love, and what love has to do with truth, have been the central themes of Julian Barnes’s oeuvre
Updated on May 18, 2018 06:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Soumya Bhattacharya