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A tale of political intrigue set during the reign of King Henry VIII won the prestigious Man Booker prize for fiction Tuesday.
Previous winners A.S. Byatt and J.M. Coetzee are among six finalists announced Tuesday for literature's prestigious Man Booker Prize.
The purported autobiography of a movie-star chimpanzee is among the contenders for Britain's most prestigious literary award.
Aravind Adiga won the prestigious Man Booker award Tuesday for his first novel "The White Tiger."
Salman Rushdie is probably the Booker Prize's best-known winner. Now he is officially the best.
Yann Martel and Salman Rushdie are the front-runners in a contest to choose the best-ever winner of literature's prestigious Booker Prize.
Irish writer Anne Enright won the Man Booker fiction prize Tuesday for "The Gathering," an uncompromising portrait of a troubled family.
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Aravind Adiga has won the Booker Prize for The White Tiger, a novel about the India that we are ashamed to admit. Here, people forget to name their children. Here, men with sadness, sculpted shoulders and knotted-rope spines become human beasts of burden.
Double, oil and troubleEconomic theory suggests that the future price is simply traders' best guess of the shape of things to come. And traders seem to be very worried about the future. They recently pushed up the price of oil to be delivered at the end of 2016 to over $145 a barrel.
Self-pitying, pretentious and ungrateful - so why has Rushdie been knighted?I would die in a ditch to defend Rushdie's right to offend. I just wish this self-pitying darling of the literati would show some gratitude. Ruth Dudley Edwards gives her verdict on the novelist at the eye of the storm.
Chinua Achebe beats Salman Rushidie, others to Booker International PrizeThe author,Chinua Achebe rightly described by renowned black American writer, Michael Thelwel as " the mother and midwife" of African novel inaugurated what came to be known today as African literature with the publication of that his famous classic, Things Fall Apart, a n …
'Writing humiliates you on a daily basis'Stating that though "prizes are great, they tend to distance a reader from the inherent qualities of a book," Penguin India's publisher, Ravi Singh recommended, "The book needs to be read irrespective of its reputation because it puts human beings at the centre of its nar …
Kiran Desai, Too Busy To Rest on Her Laurels When Kiran Desai became the youngest woman ever to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, she made a lot of people happy.
Kiran Desai Wins the Man Booker PrizeIndian born novelist Kiran Desai beat the odds and won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for her novel "The Inheritence of Loss".
Kiran Desai on shortlist for Man Booker 2006 prizeIndian author Kiran Desai was among the handful of short-listees for the Booker prize for 2006.
Mitchell tops Booker favouritesA listing of the shortlist for the MAN Booker Prize: one of English Literature's most prestigious prizes
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