Man Booker Prize

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

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

More serious sustained and organised efforts, however, will be required to really bring Hindi literature centre-stage

Alharthi hopes that her novel, which features some quite robust characters trying to negotiate life in a patriarchal milieu, will open a "window" on Arab society

Alharthi is the author of two previous collections of short fiction

Burns is one of the more surprising recent winners of the Booker, one of literature's biggest awards

Burns is the 17th woman to bag the award in its 49-year history and the first woman since 2013. It was her third novel

In Britain, you can coax the occasional creative writing student into a soft-voiced reading, but most hate the prospect

Paul Auster's '4321', 'History of Wolves' by Emily Fridlund, 'Exit West' by Mohsin Hamid, 'Elmet' by Fiona Mozley, 'Lincoln in the Bardo' by George Saunders and Ali Smith's 'Autumn' made the cut