Man Booker Prize

Good, evil and poetry in between the stories

Article Oupa Nkosi - 5 Jul 2019

The Cosmic Destiny is about good versus evil, love versus hate, freedom versus bondage, peace versus war and silence versus noise.

Festival to bookend all festivals

Article bogdan TagDiv - 1 Feb 2019

Once a year Jaipur becomes a literary wonderland, packed with people mad about the written word

Paul Beatty: Exploring race without limits

Article Kwanele Sosibo & Dinika Govender - 15 Sep 2017

Paul Beatty touches on key issues but writes in such a way that he doesn’t have to speak for black people

Roy brings nationalists no joy

Article Staff Reporter - 11 Aug 2017

The writer-activist’s return to fiction remains as unsparing of India’s failings as her nonfiction

Paul Beatty’s Man Booker achievement a first for the United States

Article Staff Reporter - 26 Oct 2016

Authors from the country only became eligible for the award in 2014.

South Korean author scoops Man Booker prize

Article Staff Reporter - 17 May 2016

Author and creative writing teacher Han Kang has won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel 'The Vegetarian'.

Novel on the attempted assassination of Bob Marley makes the Man Booker long list

Article Stephanie Addison - 30 Jul 2015

Jamaican author Marlon James's book, A Brief History of Seven Killings, is one of the 13 novels that made it onto the Man Booker Prize long list.

All you need to know about the Man Booker International Prizewinner

Article bogdan TagDiv - 21 May 2015

Praised by Susan Sontag and WG Sebald, Krasznahorkai's fans include a film director whose life's mission is to bring his novels to the screen.

Booker prize chief Ion Trewin dies aged 71

Article bogdan TagDiv - 9 Apr 2015

Journalist turned publisher, whose achievements included editing Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark, had been battling cancer since last year.

SA poet shortlisted for 6th Man Booker International Prize

Article Darryl Accone - 24 Mar 2015

Marlene Van Niekerk's "two masterpieces" detail the aggravations of the political transition in South Africa - particularly for Afrikaners.

Man Booker prize in worthy hands

Article bogdan TagDiv - 17 Oct 2014

Australian Richard Flanagan triumphed with The Road to the Deep North, a "magnificent novel of love and war" at the Man Booker prize.

Man Booker prize longlist announced

Article Mark Brown - 29 Jul 2014

Despite a change in rules that sparked fears Americans would dominate the prize, the final Man Booker longlist reflects a 'vintage year' of fiction.

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