Booker Prize

It was fourth time lucky for British writer Julian Barnes, who won literature’s Booker Prize on Tuesday after a contest that had as many insults, rivalries and bitter accusations as a paperback pot-boiler.

Barnes, a finalist on three previous occasions who once described the contest as “posh bingo,” finally triumphed with “The Sense of an Ending,” a memory-haunted novel about a 60-something man forced to confront buried truths about his past after the unexpected arrival of a letter....................
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Man Booker International Prize

 American author Lydia Davis was declared the winner of the fifth Man Booker International Prize at an award ceremony held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Her inventive, carefully-crafted and hard to categorise works saw off the challenge from nine other contenders from around the world, said a press release Wednesday evening................
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Booker prize

 Neel Mukherjee, a Kolkata-born British citizen, today emerged as the only Indian-origin writer to be named in this year’s Man Booker Prize longlist of authors vying for the prize in its debut as a global literary award.

London-based Mukherjee has been selected for his second novel, ‘The Lives of Others’, published in May this year.

The book is based in the author’s birth place of Kolkata and centres around a dysfunctional Ghosh family in the 1960s................
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Booker prize 2014

Kolkata-born British author Neel Mukherjee's latest novel The Lives of Others, set in troubled Bengal of the 1960s and centres around a dysfunctional family, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize 2014, in its debut as a global literary award.

Mukherjee, who studied at Oxford and Cambridge, was also the only Indian-origin author to be longlisted earlier this year, the first time the prestigious literary award opened up for anyone writing in English regardless of nationality..............

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