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International Booker Prize 2023: Six books shortlisted, Tamil 'Pyre' misses

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

July 9 uprising unified Sri Lanka across races: Booker Prize winner

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

'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' by Sri Lankan writer wins Booker Prize

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. Karunatilaka, one of Sri Lanka's leading authors, won the 50,000 pound (USD 57,000) award on Monday for his second novel. The 47-year-old, who has also written journalism, children's books, screenplays and rock songs, is the second Sri Lanka-born Booker Prize winner, after Michael Ondaatje, who took the trophy in 1992 for "The English Patient." Karunatilaka received the award from Camilla, Britain's queen consort, during a ceremony at London's Roundhouse concert hall. The judges' unanimous choice, "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" is the darkly humorous story about a murdered war photographer investigating his death and trying to ensure his life's legacy. Karunatilaka said Sri Lankans "specialise in gallows humour and make jokes in the face of crises". "It's our coping mechanism," he said, and express

Booker-winning author Hilary Mantel, dies at 70, confirms HarperCollins UK

Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel, the author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70, her publisher said on Friday. In a tweet from its official account, HarperCollins UK noted her date of death to be September 22. However, the reason of her demise is not yet known. In a statement, her publisher said: "We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald. This is a devastating loss and we can only be grateful she left us with such a magnificent body of work," it said. Born on July 6, 1952 in Glossop, Derbyshire in England, Mantel received the prestigious Booker Prize twice, for 2009's Wolf Hall, the first in the Thomas Cromwell series, and the 2012 follow-up Bring Up the Bodies. The conclusion to her trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, was published in 2020 to much critical acclaim, became a fiction best-seller and was longlisted for The Booker Prize 2020.

Future of Hindi literature set to prosper: Booker winner Geetanjali Shree

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

US authors Strout, Everett among Booker Prize finalists

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. Strout's symphony of everyday lives Oh William! and Everett's powerful novel about racism and police violence, The Trees, are on a shortlist announced Tuesday for the 50,000 pound (USD 58,000) prize. The other contenders include Zimbabwe's NoViolet Bulawayo, for animal fable Glory; Irish writer Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These; and The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Sri Lanka's Shehan Karunatilaka. British fantasy author Alan Garner the oldest-ever Booker nominee at 87 is on the list for Treacle Walker. Former British Museum director Neil MacGregor, who is chairing the judging panel, said several of the books are inspired by real events and address long national histories of cruelty and injustice, in Sri Lanka and Ireland, Zimbabwe and the United States. Set in different places at different

Rushdie's son says author off ventilator, retains 'feisty sense of humour'

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

Geetanjali Shree's book 'Tomb of Sand' to be published in US in 2023

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

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Meet Geetanjali Shree, first Booker awardee for an Indian language

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

Hindi writers say Geetanjali's Booker prize win has opened news vistas

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

Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand 1st Hindi novel to win International Booker

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

Geetanjali Shree's novel first Hindi work to land in Booker Prize long list

he New Delhi-based Shree, born in Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh, is the author of three novels and several story collections with her work translated into English, French, German, Serbian, and Korean.

South African Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize 2021 for 'The Promise'

"The Promise" is a novel about one white family's reckoning with South Africa's racist history.

Indian-origin Sunjeev Sahota among 13 contenders for fiction's Booker Prize

Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota is among the 13 authors longlisted for the prestigious 2021 Booker Prize for fiction for his novel 'China Room

Scottish writer Douglas Stuart's 'Shuggie Bain' wins 2020 Booker Prize

Stuart, 44, dedicated the book to his mother, who died of alcoholism when he was 16-years-old.

29-year-old Dutch writer becomes youngest to win International Booker Prize

A 29-year-old Dutch writer has become the youngest author to win the International Booker Prize

Booker Prize: Refreshingly diverse longlist with plenty of new writers

Like all other creative industries, publishing has been hit hard by the worldwide pandemic

Indian-origin author Avni Doshi's Burnt Sugar in 2020 Booker Prize longlist

Avni Doshi's "Burnt Sugar" and two titles from Bloomsbury - "Apeirogon" by Colum McCann and "Such a Fun Age" - by Kiley Reid are among the 13 books in the 50,000 pounds Booker Prize 2020 longlist

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