Literary Awards
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Reader’s guide: The 2023 International Booker Prize longlist (including Perumal Murugan’s ‘Pyre’)
Translated from the Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, ‘Pyre’ is the only Indian book among the 13 in the running for the £50,000 prize.
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‘Doesn’t worry about fitting in’: Amit Chaudhuri on 2023 PEN/Nabokov Award winner Vinod Kumar Shukla
‘All his writing is a compelling combination of strangeness, acute observation, love of life, and unexpected thinking.’
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Writer Vinod Kumar Shukla wins 2023 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature
The jury said, ‘[...] Shukla’s voice is that of a deeply intelligent onlooker; a daydreamer struck occasionally by wonder.’
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Trending
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A journalist examines the similarities and the differences between Indians and Pakistanis today
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Does India really benefit from NRIs heading the world’s new-age empires?
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The unsolved mystery of the fake PMO officer in Kashmir
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Court rejects plea seeking FIR against Rahul Gandhi’s Cambridge University speech
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China’s dam-building spree on Mekong River has turned Thai fishing villages into ‘ghost towns’
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2023 Dylan Thomas Prize longlist: 12 authors, aged 39 and younger, compete for £20,000 cash prize
Of the 12 longlisted authors, six are debutants and eight are women. The shortlist of six will be announced on March 23 and the winner, on May 11.
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Shubhangi Swarup’s ‘Latitudes of Longings’ wins 2023 Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature
Shubhangi Swarup’s novel has been published as ‘Dérive des âmes et des continents’ in French translation. It is the first Indian novel to win the prize.
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‘Tomb of Sand’ translator Daisy Rockwell gets 2023 Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award
The award recognises her contribution towards making Hindi and Urdu visible on the global literary landscape.
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Video
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Watch: SUV is stranded in the middle of a river, passengers have to be rescued
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‘Can you feel it?’ Watch Jennifer Aniston and Jimmy Fallon guess what’s inside mystery box
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Watch: Massive fire breaks out in a factory in Gujarat’s Valsad, huge plume of smoke covers the sky
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Caught on camera: The moment when a train collided with a bus at a railway crossing in Bangladesh
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‘A reporter is arrested under a law meant for terrorists...’: A newspaper editor on press freedom
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Sahitya Akademi awards: Novelist Anuradha Roy, translator N Kalyan Raman win in English categories
Authors will receive a cash prize of Rs 1,00,000 each, and translators, Rs 50,000 each, for their winning books.
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The Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize reveals its 2023 longlist of 21 books
The shortlist for the award will be unveiled at Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival in January 2023.
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Goodreads readers pick their choices of 2022. Are your favourite books of the year among them?
Nearly 60 lakh votes were cast by readers for the Goodreads Choice Awards to honour the best of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more published in 2022.
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The Reel
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‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ review: Even higher stakes and crazier action
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Watch: Oppression and rebellion in Independence-era drama ‘August 16 1947’
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‘Gumraah’ trailer: Crime thriller stars Aditya Roy Kapur in a double role, Mrunal Thakur as a cop
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How OP Nayyar was one of the original disruptors of Hindi film music
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Watch: The blunder years in ‘School College Ani Life’ starring Tejasswi Prakash, Karan Parab
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Kanad Sinha, Audrey Truschke, Christophe Jaffrelot, Pratinav Anil win the 2022 Karwaan Book Award
The prize is awarded every year to book(s) that represent the outstanding work of historical scholarship focused on the history of Indian subcontinent.
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Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival announces winners of its annual literary prizes
Debutants Vauhini Vara and Shrayana Bhattacharya are the winners in the best adult fiction and nonfiction categories respectively.
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Shekhar Pathak’s ‘The Chipko Movement’ wins Rs 15-lakh 2022 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize
The book has been translated from the Hindi by Manisha Chaudhry.
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The Field
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Women’s Boxing World C’ships: Nitu, Nikhat Zareen, Lovlina Borgohain, Saweety reach finals
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IND v AUS: Rohit Sharma on workload management for World Cup – ‘Up to IPL franchises and players’
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ISSF World Cup Bhopal: Rhythm-Varun win mixed pistol silver; Rudrankksh-Narmada claim rifle bronze
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Watch: When Mesut Ozil produced 19 assists for Arsenal in the 2015-’16 Premier League season
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Football: India earns narrow win over Myanmar in tri-nation opener; Women’s team draw against Jordan