Hilary Mantel’s final volume in the ‘Wolf Hall’ trilogy is a triumphant end to her depiction of the blacksmith’s boy who became the king of England’s right-hand man
The Cosmic Destiny is about good versus evil, love versus hate, freedom versus bondage, peace versus war and silence versus noise.
Once a year Jaipur becomes a literary wonderland, packed with people mad about the written word
Paul Beatty touches on key issues but writes in such a way that he doesn’t have to speak for black people
The writer-activist’s return to fiction remains as unsparing of India’s failings as her nonfiction
Authors from the country only became eligible for the award in 2014.
Author and creative writing teacher Han Kang has won the Man Booker International Prize for her novel ‘The Vegetarian’.
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.
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.
Journalist turned publisher, whose achievements included editing Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark, had been battling cancer since last year.
Marlene Van Niekerk’s "two masterpieces" detail the aggravations of the political transition in South Africa – particularly for Afrikaners.
Australian Richard Flanagan triumphed with The Road to the Deep North, a "magnificent novel of love and war" at the Man Booker prize.
Despite a change in rules that sparked fears Americans would dominate the prize, the final Man Booker longlist reflects a ‘vintage year’ of fiction.
Eleanor Catton (28) became the youngest writer to win the Man Booker prize when The Luminaries, took the 45th Booker at the awards dinner this week.
The youngest winner in the award’s 45-year history, 28-year-old novelist Eleanor Catton has taken home the 2013 Man Booker prize.
As the Man Booker prize extends its call for entries to countries such as the US, some fear this move will degrade the prestigious contest.
"We Need New Names" author NoViolet Bulawayo is one of the six authors selected for the 2013 Man Booker prize.
The Man Booker prize is awarded for the best original full-length novel, written in English, by a citizen of the Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe.
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/ 19 October 2011
English author Julian Barnes has finally won the Man Booker Prize for fiction, despite once dismissing the coveted award as "posh bingo".
Author and publisher Carmen Callil has withdrawn from the judging panel of the Man Booker International prize over its decision to honour Philip Roth.
Author John le Carre will remain on the Booker nomination list, despite requesting that his name be removed.
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/ 13 October 2010
British author Howard Jacobson won the Man Booker Prize on Tuesday for <em>The Finkler Question</em>, the first comic novel to scoop the awards.
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/ 15 January 2010
Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker-winning <em>Wolf Hall</em> was up for the Costa Novel Award, but Colm Tóibín’s <em>Brooklyn</em> got the nod.
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/ 17 October 2008
Ion Trewin, literary director of the Man Booker Prize, talks to Darryl Accone on the eve of the 40th Booker.
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/ 15 October 2008
Indian novelist Aravind Adiga on Tuesday won the Man Booker Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards, with The White Tiger.