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Ananthamurthy loses out to US author in Booker race

Well-known Kannada author U R Ananthamurthy, the only Indian to be shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2013, on Wednesday lost the prestigious award to American writer Lydia Davis.......

Kannada author in Man Booker Prize shortlist

Kannada author UR Ananthamurthy has been shortlisted among 10 other authors for the international Man Booker Prize for fiction. Ananthamurthy, 80, is the only Indian among to have made it to the......

Hilary Mantel wins 2012 Man Booker Prize

Novelist Hilary Mantel, author of 'Bring Up the Bodies', won the 2012 Man Booker Prize on Tuesday. This is her second book in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. "You wait 20 years for a Booker Prize;......

Jeet Thayil on Man Booker shortlist

Indian writer an Jeet Thayil's first novel Narcopolis, described as a compelling tale of Mumbai's hazy world of opium addiction, has made it to the six-author shortlist for the Man Booker Prize......

Jeet Thayil on 2012 Man Booker long-list

Noted Indian poet and writer Jeet Thayil is among 12 authors long-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction worth 50,000 pounds and an assured spurt in the sales of the prize-winning book.......

A tribute to Subir Raha, leader extraordinaire

The former ONGC chairman's passion for everything that he set out to do was such that he would settle for nothing short of being the best, says Sudhir Bisht.It was when my friend Somesh sent me an......

An IIT-ian who dreams of a greener world

Unlike a typical IIT-ian, white-collar jobs did not hold much attraction for Shripad Dharmadhikary. Which is why having passed out from IIT Bombay with a BE in Mechanical Engineering in 1985, he......

The book that Barack Obama enjoyed reading

Spanish-born Canadian author Yann Martel first shot to fame with the Life of Pi, which won him the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Almost a decade later, the 300-some page fantasy adventure......

The White Tiger to be adapted as film

Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, the Man Booker Prize-winning novel about class tensions in India has been optioned for a film adaptation by a distinguished Hollywood producer. The paperback......

Rushdie's Booker crown in danger

Noted writer Salman Rushdie is in danger of losing his crown.According to an article inThe Guardian,Man Booker is celebrating it's 40th anniversary by pitting 41 Booker prize winners against each......

Meet Ang Lee's leading man

A teenager from Delhi, with no previous acting experience, has bagged the lead role in Ang Lee's forthcoming film Life of Pi, an adaptation of Canadian author Yann Martel's Booker Prize......

How Facebook came to be

Aseem Chabbra review The Social Network.An American friend told me this story. Another friend of his came home one night, drunk after a lot of hard partying, and started viewing profiles of blond......

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Q. The Kannada author who was shortlisted among other ten authors for prestigious International Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2013
Anitha: A. more

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Q. author of book white tiger
Vivek: A. UR Ananthamurthy more

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Q. The Novel The Sense of An Ending which won the Man Booker Prize 2011 is authored by:
Sweet Swati: A. he White Tiger is the debut novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga. It was first published in 2008 and won the fortieth Man Booker Prize in the same year. more

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Ambitious prizes

The headlines said it all. The Man Booker International Prize had been awarded to Lydia Davis, the American author. But most Indian newspapers in... ...

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New Delhi: Five eminent intellectuals, academicians and writers have appealed to the government and President Pranab Mukherjee, also Visitor of the... ...

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Ananthamurthy loses out to US author in Booker race

Kannada author in Man Booker Prize shortlist

Hilary Mantel wins 2012 Man Booker Prize

Jeet Thayil on Man Booker shortlist

Jeet Thayil on 2012 Man Booker long-list

A tribute to Subir Raha, leader extraordinaire

An IIT-ian who dreams of a greener world

The book that Barack Obama enjoyed reading

The White Tiger to be adapted as film

Rushdie's Booker crown in danger

Meet Ang Lee's leading man

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