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UK Writer Samantha Harvey Wins 2024 Booker For 136-Page Novel "Orbital"
Samantha Harvey's "Orbital" is the second-shortest novel to win the award and the first to be set in space.
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Video: How A Real-Life Murder In India Inspired Agatha Christie's Debut Novel
British historian Nick Booker has stirred interest with a post revealing a unique connection between India and the origins of Agatha Christie's famous detective, Hercule Poirot.
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Booker Prize Fiction Shortlist Features Largest Number Of Women This Time
The Booker Prize for fiction shortlist for 2024, announced on Monday, featured the largest-ever number of women authors in its 55-year history as well as its first Dutch author.
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Salman Rushdie Reveals Reason Behind Not Naming Attacker In His Memoir
Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie has revealed the decision behind not naming his would-be assassin in his new memoir 'Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder' was to rob him of "the oxygen of publicity".
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"Remember Thinking I Was Dying": Salman Rushdie Recounts 2022 Knife Attack
Mumbai-born Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie has spoken in detail about the moment he was attacked by a man with a knife on a stage in New York in 2022
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Pastor Accused Of Child Sexual Abuse Dies By Suicide In US
Nashua Baptist Church officials terminated a well-liked pastor upon discovering that he was under investigation for the sexual abuse of minors.
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Meet Irish Author Paul Lynch, Winner Of Booker Prize For 'Prophet Song'
Prophet Song beat five other finalists, chosen from 163 novels submitted by publishers.
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Irish Writer Paul Lynch Wins Booker Prize For 'Prophet Song'
Irish writer Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize on Sunday for his novel 'Prophet Song', the story of a family and a country on the brink of catastrophe as an imaginary Irish government veers towards tyranny.
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Award-Winning UK Author AS Byatt Dies At 87
Acclaimed British author AS Byatt, who won the 1990 Booker Prize for her best-selling romance novel "Possession", has died at the age of 87, her publisher announced on Friday.
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Salman Rushdie Speaks Of "Crazy Dreams" About Knife Attack In New York
Salman Rushdie, the Booker Prize-winning author, was on stage almost a year ago when he was stabbed up to 10 times by Hadi Matar.
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"Time Shelter": Bulgarian Writer Georgi Gospodinov Wins International Booker Prize
Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel were named Tuesday winners of the International Booker Prize with the novel "Time Shelter" -- a first for a book in Bulgarian.
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Shashi Tharoor Calls For Nobel For This "Greatest" India-Born Writer
In his effusive praise for Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, politician and author Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday asserted that the "overdue" Nobel Prize should not be withheld any longer from the "greatest living Indian writer."
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Tamil Writer Perumal Murugan Makes It To International Booker Longlist 2023
Tamil writer Perumal Murugan has been selected for the International Booker prize longlist for 2023, the Booker Prize Foundation announced on Tuesday.
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"I'm Lucky": Salman Rushdie On Surviving "Colossal" Knife Attack
Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of Booker Prize-winning novel 'Midnight's Children', said that he feels lucky to have survived the last year's brutal stabbing at a literary event in the US.
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"Hindi Is My Comfort Language": International Booker Winner Geetanjali Shree
Geetanjali Shree, the first Hindi author to win the International Booker Prize, said Hindi is her comfort language and it is through this language that "I want to express myself better."
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UK Writer Samantha Harvey Wins 2024 Booker For 136-Page Novel "Orbital"
Samantha Harvey's "Orbital" is the second-shortest novel to win the award and the first to be set in space.
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Video: How A Real-Life Murder In India Inspired Agatha Christie's Debut Novel
British historian Nick Booker has stirred interest with a post revealing a unique connection between India and the origins of Agatha Christie's famous detective, Hercule Poirot.
-
Booker Prize Fiction Shortlist Features Largest Number Of Women This Time
The Booker Prize for fiction shortlist for 2024, announced on Monday, featured the largest-ever number of women authors in its 55-year history as well as its first Dutch author.
-
Salman Rushdie Reveals Reason Behind Not Naming Attacker In His Memoir
Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie has revealed the decision behind not naming his would-be assassin in his new memoir 'Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder' was to rob him of "the oxygen of publicity".
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"Remember Thinking I Was Dying": Salman Rushdie Recounts 2022 Knife Attack
Mumbai-born Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie has spoken in detail about the moment he was attacked by a man with a knife on a stage in New York in 2022
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Pastor Accused Of Child Sexual Abuse Dies By Suicide In US
Nashua Baptist Church officials terminated a well-liked pastor upon discovering that he was under investigation for the sexual abuse of minors.
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Meet Irish Author Paul Lynch, Winner Of Booker Prize For 'Prophet Song'
Prophet Song beat five other finalists, chosen from 163 novels submitted by publishers.
-
Irish Writer Paul Lynch Wins Booker Prize For 'Prophet Song'
Irish writer Paul Lynch won the 2023 Booker Prize on Sunday for his novel 'Prophet Song', the story of a family and a country on the brink of catastrophe as an imaginary Irish government veers towards tyranny.
-
Award-Winning UK Author AS Byatt Dies At 87
Acclaimed British author AS Byatt, who won the 1990 Booker Prize for her best-selling romance novel "Possession", has died at the age of 87, her publisher announced on Friday.
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Salman Rushdie Speaks Of "Crazy Dreams" About Knife Attack In New York
Salman Rushdie, the Booker Prize-winning author, was on stage almost a year ago when he was stabbed up to 10 times by Hadi Matar.
-
"Time Shelter": Bulgarian Writer Georgi Gospodinov Wins International Booker Prize
Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel were named Tuesday winners of the International Booker Prize with the novel "Time Shelter" -- a first for a book in Bulgarian.
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Shashi Tharoor Calls For Nobel For This "Greatest" India-Born Writer
In his effusive praise for Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, politician and author Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday asserted that the "overdue" Nobel Prize should not be withheld any longer from the "greatest living Indian writer."
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Tamil Writer Perumal Murugan Makes It To International Booker Longlist 2023
Tamil writer Perumal Murugan has been selected for the International Booker prize longlist for 2023, the Booker Prize Foundation announced on Tuesday.
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"I'm Lucky": Salman Rushdie On Surviving "Colossal" Knife Attack
Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of Booker Prize-winning novel 'Midnight's Children', said that he feels lucky to have survived the last year's brutal stabbing at a literary event in the US.
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"Hindi Is My Comfort Language": International Booker Winner Geetanjali Shree
Geetanjali Shree, the first Hindi author to win the International Booker Prize, said Hindi is her comfort language and it is through this language that "I want to express myself better."
