Salman rushdie

Atwood, who last won the prize in 2000 for ‘The Blind Assassin’, won the 2019 prize for her ‘The Testaments’, while Evaristo, the first black woman to win the prize, was awarded for ‘Girl, Woman, Other’. They will share the £50,000 prize money. read more

Past laureates have ranged from celebrated writers such as Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes to Kazuo Ishiguro and Roddy Doyle. read more

Booker Prize winner Margaret Atwood is the bookies’ favorite to win the coveted fiction trophy again for “The Testaments,” her follow-up to dystopian saga “The Handmaid’s Tale.” read more

This week saw the long-running literary extravaganza, founded by Namita Gokhale, William Dalrymple and Sanjoy K Roy, set up its tent in New York. read more

Canadian author Atwood has been nominated to the six-person list for The Testaments, her hotly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale due out later this month. Rushdie, who is nominated for Quichotte, won the Booker Prize in 1981 for his book Midnight’s... read more

Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize in 1981 and both Atwood and Obioma had earlier made it to the 1986 and 2015 short-lists respectively. read more

From Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, her sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, to Lucy Ellmann’s epic Ducks, Newburyport and Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte, novelists and short story writers are addressing the news of the moment through imagined narratives. read more

This year’s Booker Prize longlist includes two former winners as well as an international array of acclaimed fiction. read more

Rushdie, a former Booker winner, is on the longlist for ‘Quichotte’, a novel to be published in September; Atwood’s ‘The Testament’ is also due to be released in September. read more

After making his film debut with Majid Majidi’s Beyond the Clouds, Ishaan Khatter was last seen in Janhvi Kapoor’s Dhadak. read more

Printed in 1927, the two volumes of Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography will come in their original binding of green cloth boards. read more

Writer Anthony McCarten who wrote Bohemian Rhapsody, talks about humanising historical figures on screen and how being a journalist helped him read more

Here’s what some of our favourite writers are reading, and what you should too read more

In this week’s column of The Taste With Vir, Vir Sanghvi explores the 30th anniversary of the controversy that accompanied the publication of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. read more

The novelist’s life changed forever on February 14, 1989, when Iran’s spiritual leader ordered Rushdie’s execution after branding his novel “The Satanic Verses” blasphemous. read more