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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· May 22, 2019 · 12:22 pm

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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· Oct 17, 2018 · 07:52 am

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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· May 23, 2018 · 08:29 am

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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· Feb 16, 2018 · 04:17 pm

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.

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· Oct 21, 2017 · 06:30 pm

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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· Oct 18, 2017 · 08:14 am

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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· Sep 13, 2017 · 05:27 pm

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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· Jul 27, 2017 · 08:26 am

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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· Oct 26, 2016 · 02:39 am

Jamaican author Marlon James wins Man Booker Prize 2015

James said he hoped his win would bring more attention to Caribbean writing.

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· Oct 14, 2015 · 01:45 pm