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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;......

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 2009 Man Booker Prize

 In a short-list bereft of Indian writers, this year's Man Booker prize has gone to British novelist Hilary Mantel for her gripping 16th century tale titled Wolf Hall. Mantel, 57, received 50,000......

Who will grab 2009 Man Booker Prize?

 The judges for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction announced the shortlisted books for this year's prize. The shortlisted titles are The Children's Book by A S Byatt (Random House, Chatto and......

Kiran Desai wins the Man Booker Prize

 Defying the bookmakers who were certain that Sarah Waters' Night Watch would take home the most coveted literary prize in the Commonwealth countries, New Delhi-born Kiran Desai won the Man Booker......

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......

Adiga's The White Tiger will be made into a film

 Ready for another Slumdog Millionaire? You'd better be because after Vikas Swarup's Q & A was made into Slumdog Millionaire by Danny Boyle, it's the turn of Aravind Adiga's Man Booker Prize winner......

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......

How Brick Lane was made: Director's cut

 Filmmaker Sarah Gavron grew up watching Hollywood's fantasy films, but never seriously thought about the filmmaking process.So years later, when Britain's Film4 asked her to direct Brick Lane, she......

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......

Roy Keane teams up with author Roddy Doyle for memoir

 Booker Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle, creator of some of Ireland's most renowned characters, will tackle one the country's best known when he teams up with Roy Keane to write the former......

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