Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain wins 2020 Booker, Avni Doshi misses out

New York-based Scottish writer Douglas Stuart has won the prestigious 50,000-pound Booker Prize for his autobiographical debut novel Shuggie Bain, a coming of age tale of love and alcoholism set in......

Booker Prize for Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evarist as jury breaks rules

Atwood's The Testaments and Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other earned each author an equal share of the £50,000 prize. IMAGE: Margaret Atwood poses with Bernardine Evaristo after jointly......

6 Indians in Commonwealth literary prize shortlists

Six Indian writers, including Jahnavi Barua and Rahul Bhattacharya, figure in the shortlists of the 2012 Commonwealth Book and Short Story Prizes. Barua, for her novel 'Rebirth', Bhattacharya for......