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From mushairas to Booker winner: Lucknow becomes a hub for literary lovers

Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali, flautist Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia and author Satya Saran from last year’s Metaphor Literature Lucknow Litfest

Updated 241 days ago

2025 Booker Prize: Szalay’s fiction builds on the melancholy of Europe

Some of the novels short-listed for this year’s Booker prize share this particular trait of exploring solitariness as an awareness of the body. (AP)

Published 263 days ago

David Szalay wins the Booker prize for “Flesh”

David Szalay, who now lives in Vienna and was born in Montreal to a Canadian mother and Hungarian father.

Published 264 days ago

Author David Szalay takes home Booker Prize for novel 'Flesh'

Accepting his trophy at London's Old Billingsgate, Szalay thanked the judges for rewarding his “risky” novel.

Published 265 days ago

Review: Audition by Katie Kitamura

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players... (Shutterstock)

Published 298 days ago

Kiran Desai returns to the 2025 Booker shortlist after 19 years with new novel

Kiran Desai shortlisted for Booker Prize with new novel

Published 312 days ago

Kiran Desai is a favorite and US authors make a strong showing on the Booker Prize shortlist

Kiran Desai is a favorite and US authors make a strong showing on the Booker Prize shortlist

Published 313 days ago

Delhiwale: Anita Desai as a Gulmohar Park tenant

The title page has a handwritten inscription referring to the house; it was named Sneh Sadan, after Vinita’s mother. (HT Photo)

Published 315 days ago

SC to hear plea against Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq's Dasara invite

advocate Sughosh Subramanyam mentioned the matter before Chief Justice of India Bhushan R Gavai.

Updated 318 days ago

Review: Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

A fishing town in the UK. (Shutterstock)

Published 327 days ago

Ex-MP moves Karnataka HC over Mushtaq’s Dasara invite, alleges move hurts Hindu sentiments

BJP leader and former MP Pratap Simha moved the Karnataka high court over the selection of Booker Prize-winning author Banu Mushtaq to open the Mysuru Dasara festival. (HT PHOTO)

Published 330 days ago

Book Box| From Brooklyn to Rome: Katie Kitamura on writing, family, pleasure

I wrote Audition during the pandemic, during that tension of sharing space again with people you love, having to recalibrate those relationships. That fed into the story --- Katie Kitamura (The Bookerprizes.com)

Published 365 days ago

Exclusive | Int'l Booker Prize winner Banu: No one should politicise language

Banu Mushtaq, author of Heart Lamp, is the first Kannada writer to have won the International Booker Prize in London.

Published 435 days ago

HT Archives: Arundhati Roy wins Booker for her debut novel

12 December 1997: Booker Prize Winner Arundhati Roy who won the Booker for her debut novel "The God of Small Things", in London. (HT Archives)

Published 436 days ago

International Booker Prize winner Banu Mushtaq’s speech honours her readers

International Booker Prize winners; (LtoR) translator Deepa Bhasthi and author Banu Mushtaq

Published 438 days ago

Dr Rajkumar’s iconic Kannada song quoted at Booker Prize ceremony. Watch

Deepa Bhasthi at Booker Prize ceremony.

Published 439 days ago

Who is Banu Mushtaq? Indian author wins International Booker Prize | 5 things

Banu Mushtaq's writing stems from the progressive movements in Karnataka and her involvement in Bandaya Sahitya movement,

Updated 439 days ago

Barack Obama reveals his favourite books of 2024, urges followers to read them

Ex-US President Barack Obama (File Photo)

Updated 590 days ago

Kiran Desai to publish first novel since 'The Inheritance of Loss' came out nearly 20 years ago

Kiran Desai to publish first novel since 'The Inheritance of Loss' came out nearly 20 years ago

Published 592 days ago

Orbital is an ode to Earth as our home: A Wknd interview with Samantha Harvey

‘I wanted the tone of the book to be predominantly joyful because that is a form of power, in a way. I wanted to convey that to be happy is an act of resistance,’ Harvey says. (AFP)

Updated 599 days ago

Book Box | Booker Prize-winning and other longlisted tales of the sea and sky

Autumn turns to winter

Published 624 days ago

Booker Prize 2024: Samantha Harvey’s Orbital becomes first space novel to win

Samantha Harvey wrote Orbital

Published 628 days ago

Women @Booker 2024: Breaking boundaries, dismantling one moniker at a time

On the shortlist for the 2024 Booker Prize, five of the six shortlisted authors are women

Published 676 days ago

Booker 2024 shortlist a historical moment

Canadian author Margaret Atwood gives a press conference following the release of her new book 'The Testaments' a sequel to the award-winning 1985 novel "The Handmaid's Tale" in London on September 10, 2019. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP) (AFP)

Updated 683 days ago

Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner are among 6 Booker Prize finalists

Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner are among 6 Booker Prize finalists

Published 685 days ago

Daisy Rockwell – “Do whatever you need to do, but do not remain silent”

The writer and translator Daisy Rockwell. (Beowulf Sheehan)

Published 702 days ago

Review: ‘Held’ by Anne Michaels

British soldiers in a trench in World War 1. (Shutterstock)

Published 713 days ago

Review: James by Percival Everett

A young slave during the US Civil War. (Shutterstock)

Published 723 days ago

2024 Booker Longlist: Get over John Green- Colleen Hoover, here's your next pick

The Booker Prize has finally released its much-awaited longlist for 2024.

Updated 731 days ago

Jenny Erpenbeck: Exploring the past from an East German perspective

Renowned outside Germany, Jenny Erpenbeck has not garnered the same acclaim at home

Published 801 days ago

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