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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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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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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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"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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"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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Sri Lankan Author Shehan Karunatilaka Wins 2022 Booker Prize
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka on Monday won Britain's Booker Prize for fiction for his work "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida", about a journalist murdered amid the country's sectarian strife.
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Booker Winner's Agra Event Cancelled Over Alleged Remark On Deities
An event to honour International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree in Agra on Saturday was called off by the organisers after a complaint was filed against the author alleging there are some objectionable comments about Indian deities in her novel
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20 To 87 - Booker Longlist 2022 Features Oldest And Youngest Ever Nominees
The list of 13 novels will be whittled down to a shortlist on September 6, before the prestigious British award is conferred on October 17, handing its winner a career-changing boost in sales and public profile.
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Booker Prize To Hindi Novel For 1st Time: Geetanjali Shree's "Tomb Of Sand"
Author Geetanjali Shree's Hindi novel 'Tomb of Sand' has become the first book in any Indian language to win the prestigious International Booker Prize.
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Damon Galgut Awarded Booker Prize 2021 For "The Promise"
South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut on Wednesday won the 2021 Booker Prize for "The Promise", his third shortlisted novel which chronicles a family in his homeland from the late apartheid era through to Jacob Zuma's presidency.
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Scottish Author Douglas Stuart Wins Booker Prize For Debut Novel Shuggie Bain
Scottish author Douglas Stuart on Thursday was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize for his acclaimed debut novel "Shuggie Bain," set in his home city of Glasgow.
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Indian-Origin Author Avni Doshi Among Six Others On Booker Prize 2020 List
Dubai-based Indian-origin author Avni Doshi is among the six authors shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize for her debut novel 'Burnt Sugar''.
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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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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.
-
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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"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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"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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Sri Lankan Author Shehan Karunatilaka Wins 2022 Booker Prize
Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka on Monday won Britain's Booker Prize for fiction for his work "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida", about a journalist murdered amid the country's sectarian strife.
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Booker Winner's Agra Event Cancelled Over Alleged Remark On Deities
An event to honour International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree in Agra on Saturday was called off by the organisers after a complaint was filed against the author alleging there are some objectionable comments about Indian deities in her novel
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20 To 87 - Booker Longlist 2022 Features Oldest And Youngest Ever Nominees
The list of 13 novels will be whittled down to a shortlist on September 6, before the prestigious British award is conferred on October 17, handing its winner a career-changing boost in sales and public profile.
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Booker Prize To Hindi Novel For 1st Time: Geetanjali Shree's "Tomb Of Sand"
Author Geetanjali Shree's Hindi novel 'Tomb of Sand' has become the first book in any Indian language to win the prestigious International Booker Prize.
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Damon Galgut Awarded Booker Prize 2021 For "The Promise"
South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut on Wednesday won the 2021 Booker Prize for "The Promise", his third shortlisted novel which chronicles a family in his homeland from the late apartheid era through to Jacob Zuma's presidency.
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Scottish Author Douglas Stuart Wins Booker Prize For Debut Novel Shuggie Bain
Scottish author Douglas Stuart on Thursday was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize for his acclaimed debut novel "Shuggie Bain," set in his home city of Glasgow.
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Indian-Origin Author Avni Doshi Among Six Others On Booker Prize 2020 List
Dubai-based Indian-origin author Avni Doshi is among the six authors shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize for her debut novel 'Burnt Sugar''.
