Man Booker Prize
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Omani author Jokha Alharthi wins Man Booker International Prize for ‘Celestial Bodies’
The book tells the story of three sisters confronting Oman’s slave-owning past and a complex modern world.
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Anna Burns becomes the first author from Northern Ireland to win Man Booker Prize
Her novel, ‘Milkman’, tells the story of an 18-year-old girl being pursued by a much older person.
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Polish author Olga Tokarczuk wins 2018 Man Booker International Prize for ‘Flights’
The book’s translator, Jennifer Croft, will receive half of the £50,000 cash prize.
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Booker Prize Foundation announces one-off prize in search of best-ever winner
A panel of five judges will go through all the Booker Prize-winning works of fiction since 1969 to find out which book ‘has stood the test of time’.
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Two Man Bookers in a row: Why the British shouldn’t be sore at American literary success
After Paul Beatty in 2016, the 2017 winner George Saunders is the second American to lift the £ 50,000 award.
Andrew Dix, The Conversation
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George Saunders wins Man Booker Prize 2017 for his novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’
The American fiction writer was praised for his ‘utterly original’ and ‘deeply moving’ book.
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‘Look at my wonderful costume’: Actor Anne Hathaway reacts to scenes from some of her popular movies
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Arundhati Roy’s second novel out of Man Booker Prize 2017 race
The shortlist includes Paul Auster’s ‘4321’, Emily Fridlund’s ‘History of Wolves’ and Mohsin Hamid’s ‘Exit West’ among others.
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Arundhati Roy’s second novel makes it to this year’s Man Booker Prize longlist
Mohsin Hamid’s ‘Exit West’ and Kamila Shamsie’s ‘Home Fire’ are also among the 13 books selected from 144 submissions.
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American writer Paul Beatty wins the Man Booker Prize for his satirical novel 'The Sellout'
The novel is a wicked take on race relations, in which slavery and segregation are reintroduced.
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‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ trailer: Diljit Dosanjh plays the slain Punjabi singer in Imtiaz Ali’s biopic
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Premiere date announced for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s ‘Heeramandi’
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‘The Goat Life’ review: A protracted saga of suffering and survival
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The secret ingredient of Pratik Gandhi’s success: ‘Salt to taste’
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