What is a Booker Prize?

This year's Booker shortlist featured five women among the six finalists, the highest representation of women in the prize's 55-year history

Demand for translating Indian language literature and nonfiction is expanding

Jaipur Literature Festival 2024: In a conversation with Business Standard, Galgut said currently non-fiction is thriving, and fiction is more under stress

Set in Dublin, "Prophet Song" tells the story of a family grappling with a terrifying new world in which the democratic norms they are used to begin to disappear

The Booker Prize comes with a cash prize of GBP 50,000, a trophy. The winner will be unveiled on November 26 at an award ceremony in London

The poet talks about artificial intelligence, translation and 'capitalism's weapons'

Gospodinov, 55, said he began writing his book about the weaponization of nostalgia in 2016, the year of Trump's election and the UK's Brexit referendum. He said it was a time when anxiety was in air

Nine months after a near-lethal attack that left him debilitated and without vision in one eye, Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie made his first appearance at the PEN Americas

Last year, the award was won by Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell for 'Tomb of Sand', the first Hindi novel to win the prize

It was a movement, especially July 9, 2022 where the whole country unified across races, generations, political views: Shehan Karunatilaka

Writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction for "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida," a satirical "afterlife noir" set during Sri Lanka's brutal civil war.

Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel, the author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70, her publisher said on Friday

Geetanjali Shree, the first Hindi litterateur to receive the International Booker Prize, talks in an interview to Sandeep Kumar on many topics including the impact of this award

American authors Elizabeth Strout and Percival Everett are up against writers from Britain, Ireland, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka as finalists for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction.

The Mumbai-born author was stabbed in New York in what US authorities described as a 'targeted, unprovoked, preplanned' attack

Tomb of Sand was first published in 2018 and released in English translation in 2021

Jawaharlal Nehru University on Saturday congratulated its alumna Geetanjali Shree, whose Hindi novel has become the first book in an Indian language to win the prestigious International Booker Prize.

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First Booker International awardee for an Indian language, Geetanjali Shree shines the light on many Partition writers through Tomb of Sand

"Tomb of Sand" originally titled "Ret Ki Samadhi" is the first Hindi work translated to English to have received the coveted recognition.