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Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses was banned in India in 1988 by then-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, prompting the author to publish an open letter in the New York Times in response

British author David Lodge, who was twice short-listed for the country's leading literary prize, has died. He was 89. Lodge's family said they were very proud of the prolific writer, who died on New Year's Day, according to a statement issued by his publisher, Penguin Random House. Lodge is probably best known for his two Booker Prize-nominated novels, 1984's Small World: An Academic Romance and Nice Works four years later. The two novels followed on from 1975's Changing Places, the first in a trilogy series about a fictional university. The trilogy was adapted successfully for television in the 1980s. Lodge, who also wrote memoirs and television scripts, taught in the English department at the University of Birmingham between 1960 and 1987 before retiring to focus on writing. It was interesting growing up with David Lodge as a father," his family said. Conversation over the supper table was always lively, our mother Mary very much held her own, meanwhile, David was ready with a .

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