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Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had recently announced that Banu Mushtaq would inaugurate the Nada Habba (state festival) Dasara celebrations in Mysuru, which traditionally begin with rituals at the Chamundi Hill temple.
Both Paul Murray (The Bee Sting) and Paul Lynch (Prophet Song) are part of what Sebastian Barry, as Irish Laureate for Fiction, calls a “golden age” of Irish writing.
The 45th Prix Européen de l’Essai award ceremony was held on September 12 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Trained as an architect, Roy, chose to function freewheelingly, producing an array of works across media. Here are five works that reflect the distinctive achievement of Roy as an artist.
MacInnes doesn’t endorse the term ‘climate-change novel’ as his book is increasingly getting referred to as. The novel is difficult to categorise into any genre for multiple reasons.
Set in an Irish town, 'The Bee Sting' is about a family of four, and a saga of decisions that turn out badly.
The award recognizes the best in long fiction published in the U.K. and Ireland between Oct. 1, 2022, and Sept. 30, 2023. The nominees were chosen from 163 books submitted by publishers.
There are many languorous passages that pop up at random. As much as they are fillers, they can also be counted as brief pauses that we often take, like naps.
Shehan Karunatilaka's second book, 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida', winner of this year's Booker Prize, is set in 1980s Sri Lanka.
Hilary Mary Mantel won the Booker prize twice for her Cromwell books — 'Wolf Hall' and its sequel 'Bring Up the Bodies' — and was one of Britain’s most decorated novelists.
"We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald," a statement said.
Mantel won the Booker twice - for Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The books were filmed for TV.
This year’s International Booker Shortlist includes Tomb of Sand, a translated Hindi novel. A look at the complete list
With translations now an organic part of the Indian writing in English firmament and gender parity being not just rued but rectified one step at a time, the world of letters is seeing its own revolutions.
The author’s third novel tells the stories of a young woman in 1920s Punjab, and of her great-grandson who arrives from Britain.
Founded in 1969, the Booker Prize has a reputation for transforming writers’ careers, and was originally open to British, Irish and Commonwealth writers. Eligibility was expanded in 2014 to all novels in English published in the UK.
Ismail Kadare’s 'The Palace of Dreams' is an allegory of a totalitarian state that examines the dreams of every citizen. It’s both an murky mirror of former circumstances and a far-seeing fable of mass surveillance.
It is important to have such festivals around the country because it gives everyone access to such events
German-born screenwriter and novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the only person to win both an Oscar and a Booker prize and lived in Delhi for 25 years, died on Wednesday.
British novelist Beryl Bainbridge, shortlisted five times for the coveted Booker Prize for fiction but never a winner, will finally be honoured with a special "Best of Beryl" award, organisers said on Tuesday.
