Booker Prize

One for the history books: Who is Leila Mottley, the youngest-ever writer on the Booker long list?

The youngest writer ever to make it to the Booker longlist, Mottley, 20, has penned a gripping tale of juvenile sexual abuse in 'Nightcrawling'. Her entry has literary enthusiasts talking about her short but shining career and a book that is all the more relevant in a post-Black Lives Matter America

Geetanjali Shree isn’t the first Indian to win the Booker: Difference between Booker and International Booker Prize

While congratulations are in order for Geetanjali Shree and her book’s translator, Daisy Rockwell, she is not the first Indian to win a Booker Prize. She is, in fact, the first Indian to win an International Booker Prize. But, aren’t they the same thing? They are not, and we explain why

Book Review: Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand is a border-bending work of fiction

In more ways than one, ‘Tomb of Sand’ is an ode to the rich history of storytelling in South Asia. It exists, like all great stories, in liminal and discernible spaces at once.

Geetanjali Shree's 'Tomb of Sand' bags International Booker Prize, first Hindi novel to win

'Tomb of Sand', originally 'Ret Samadhi', is set in northern India and follows an 80-year-old woman in a tale that the Booker judges dubbed a joyous cacophony and an 'irresistible novel'

South African writer Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize for 'The Promise'

He is the third South African novelist to win the Booker Prize, after Nadine Gordimer in 1974 and JM Coetzee, who won twice, in 1983 and 1999

French writer David Diop wins International Booker Prize for his World War I novel At Night All Blood is Black

Diop's novel, which was published in French in 2018, resonates with present-day debates about racism and colonialism.

International Booker Prize 2021: Argentina's Mariana Enriquez, France's Eric Vuillard among shortlisted authors

British author Lucy Hughes-Hallett, who is chairing the panel of judges, said the list showed that some of the most exciting new writing is going on “in the borderlands” between fiction and other genres, such as history and memoir.

Curious case of Aravind Adiga as a famous literary recluse: Booker-winning author is anomaly in publishing world

In an inversion of the mantra that marketing is a necessary evil, the bane of an author’s existence that ultimately has its reward, Adiga refuses to do too much publicity around his books, often to the chagrin of his publishers.

Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk's art book, The Lost Soul, to hit bookstores this week

First published in Poland in 2017 as Zgubiona dusza, the hardcover picture book originated from a private ceremony and a “little story” that Tokarczuk wrote for one person.

Jaipur Literature Festival 2021: Douglas Stuart on how he shaped the world of his Booker-winning novel Shuggie Bain

Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart's conversation with writer Paul McVeigh on Day 3 of the Jaipur Literature Festival, encapsulated what this virtual edition gets right.