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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

lucknow news

Updated on Dec 04, 2025 11:59 pm IST

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)

opinion

Published on Nov 12, 2025 09:03 pm IST

David Szalay wins the Booker prize for “Flesh”

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

books

Published on Nov 12, 2025 12:29 pm IST

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.

world news

Published on Nov 11, 2025 12:34 pm IST

Review: Audition by Katie Kitamura

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

books

Published on Oct 09, 2025 03:10 am IST

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

Kiran Desai shortlisted for Booker Prize with new novel

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Published on Sept 24, 2025 06:06 pm IST

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

us news

Published on Sept 24, 2025 12:31 am IST

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)

delhi news

Published on Sept 22, 2025 03:20 am IST

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.

india news

Updated on Sept 19, 2025 03:06 pm IST

Review: Seascraper by Benjamin Wood

A fishing town in the UK. (Shutterstock)

books

Published on Sept 10, 2025 06:12 pm IST

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)

india news

Published on Sept 07, 2025 05:02 am IST

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

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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)

india news

Published on Aug 03, 2025 02:03 pm IST

British writer Bernardine Evaristo receives accolade for breaking literary boundaries

us news

Updated on Oct 06, 2025 10:08 pm IST

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.

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Published on May 25, 2025 10:42 am IST

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)

india news

Published on May 24, 2025 07:00 am IST

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

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

htcity

Published on May 21, 2025 05:20 pm IST

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

Deepa Bhasthi at Booker Prize ceremony.

bengaluru news

Published on May 22, 2025 05:59 pm IST

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,

india news

Updated on May 21, 2025 09:30 am IST

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

Ex-US President Barack Obama (File Photo)

world news

Updated on Dec 21, 2024 08:01 am IST

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

entertainment

Published on Dec 18, 2024 06:35 pm IST

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)

art culture

Updated on Dec 12, 2024 01:27 pm IST

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

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Autumn turns to winter

books

Published on Nov 16, 2024 04:26 pm IST

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

Samantha Harvey wrote Orbital

htcity

Published on Nov 13, 2024 01:49 pm IST

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

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

opinion

Published on Sept 25, 2024 06:54 pm IST

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)

editorials

Updated on Sept 18, 2024 09:17 pm IST