The Booker Prize 2024 features largest number of women authors in its 55-year history Culture September 25, 2024 Five of the six-strong shortlist are women, with authors from five countries represented, including the Netherlands for the first time.
2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist entirely first-time nominees Culture May 25, 2021 The winner will be announced on July 7.
Perumal Murugan's 'Pyre' first Tamil work longlisted for International Booker Prize People April 21, 2023 He makes an astounding comeback, after giving up and declaring himself ‘dead’ as a writer because of vicious protests against his oeuvre.
Tan Twan Eng is first Malaysian International Booker Prize judge Culture March 2, 2023 He is drawn to well-constructed and well-written books, unpretentious novels that do not waste the reader’s time and speak to both the head and heart.
2022 Booker prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka melds fact and fiction within an otherworldly narrative Culture December 20, 2022 The author put Sri Lanka on the literary map once again with his second novel 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida'.
Damon Galgut’s 'The Promise' tackles multiple societal issues through the eyes of a white South African family Culture May 13, 2022 The Booker Prize-winning novel is divided into four sections linked to the historical background of the country.
