Booker Prize
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‘One of the most profound joys in the world’: Singer Dua Lipa delivers Booker Prize keynote speech
‘I often wonder if authors realise just how many gifts they give us.’
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‘I hope Sri Lanka learns from its stories’: Watch winner Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker Prize speech
‘I was just wondering, can I get crypto? The British pound is doing marginally better than the Sri Lankan rupee at the moment’, Karunatilaka quipped.
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Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize 2022 for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’
Karunatilaka’s novel is a satire based in war-torn Sri Lanka.
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2022 Booker Prize: Actors and musicians read excerpts from the six shortlisted books
The winner will be announced on October 17.
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Watch: 2022 Booker Prize shortlisted authors answer readers’ questions about their nominated books
The winner will be declared on October 17.
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Booker Prize 2022 shortlist: A reader’s introduction to the six novels
The nominations are split equally between men and women authors. At 87, Alan Garner is the oldest author ever to be shortlisted.
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Video
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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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Watch: Chef makes life-sized pencil and sharpener entirely from chocolate
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International Booker Prize: Geetanjali Shree’s novel in translation makes shortlist
‘Tomb of Sand’ is the first work of fiction in Hindi to be shortlisted for the Booker.
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Watch: South African author Damon Galgut receives 2021 Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’
The novel, set during South Africa’s transition out of apartheid, has been described as a ‘tour de force’.
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Douglas Stuart’s ‘Shuggie Bain’ won in one of the most politically charged Booker Prize shortlists
Prize shortlists – whether for literature, film or art – reflect the cultural and political moment in which they exist.
Stevie Marsden, The Conversation
The Reel
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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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‘Bade Miyan Chote Miyan’ trailer: Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff team up for action thriller
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Scottish-American author Douglas Stuart wins 2020 Booker Prize for debut novel ‘Shuggie Bain’
The writer dedicated the award to his mother, who battled alcohol addiction and died when he was 16.
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Indian-origin author Avni Doshi’s ‘Girl in White Cotton’ makes it to Booker Prize longlist for 2020
The book was released as ‘Burnt Sugar’ outside India, and deals with the relationship between a woman suffering memory loss and her daughter.
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Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo share 2019 Booker Prize as judges ‘flout rules’
Evaristo is the first black woman to win the prize, while 79-year-old Atwood is now the oldest person to get the award.
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The Field
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