Man Booker Prize

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

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

Sustained effort can bring Hindi literature in focus: Geetanjali Shree

More serious sustained and organised efforts, however, will be required to really bring Hindi literature centre-stage

Meet Jokha Alharthi, the first Arabic writer to win Man Booker Prize

Alharthi hopes that her novel, which features some quite robust characters trying to negotiate life in a patriarchal milieu, will open a "window" on Arab society

Jokha Alharthi becomes first Arabic author to win Man Booker prize

Alharthi is the author of two previous collections of short fiction

Why Anna Burns, the latest Booker Prize winner, may never write again

Burns is one of the more surprising recent winners of the Booker, one of literature's biggest awards

Northern Irish writer Anna Burns wins 2018 Man Booker Prize for 'Milkman'

Burns is the 17th woman to bag the award in its 49-year history and the first woman since 2013. It was her third novel

Man Booker Prize 2018: When solitude-seeking writers come to perform live

In Britain, you can coax the occasional creative writing student into a soft-voiced reading, but most hate the prospect

Arundhati Roy out of Booker race, Mohsin Hamid's Exit West in shortlist

Paul Auster's '4321', 'History of Wolves' by Emily Fridlund, 'Exit West' by Mohsin Hamid, 'Elmet' by Fiona Mozley, 'Lincoln in the Bardo' by George Saunders and Ali Smith's 'Autumn' made the cut