WHAT IS A BOOKER PRIZE?
Booker Prize
The Booker Prize is a literary prize awarded every year to the best novel written in the English language which is published in the UK or Ireland. It is a high-profile literary prize and thus, is much anticipated among book lovers.
It is a mark of distinction for authors to be selected in the shortlist or even to be nominated for the "longlist".
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LATEST UPDATES ON BOOKER PRIZE
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July 9 uprising unified Sri Lanka across races: Booker Prize winner
It was a movement, especially July 9, 2022 where the whole country unified across races, generations, political views: Shehan ...| January 13, 2023, Friday -
'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' by Sri Lankan writer wins Booker Prize
Writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction for "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida," a satirical ...| October 18, 2022, Tuesday -
Booker-winning author Hilary Mantel, dies at 70, confirms HarperCollins UK
Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel, the author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70, her publisher said ...| September 23, 2022, Friday -
Future of Hindi literature set to prosper: Booker winner Geetanjali Shree
Geetanjali Shree, the first Hindi litterateur to receive the International Booker Prize, talks in an interview to Sandeep Kumar ...| September 14, 2022, Wednesday -
US authors Strout, Everett among Booker Prize finalists
American authors Elizabeth Strout and Percival Everett are up against writers from Britain, Ireland, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka as ...| September 07, 2022, Wednesday -
Rushdie's son says author off ventilator, retains 'feisty sense of humour'
The Mumbai-born author was stabbed in New York in what US authorities described as a 'targeted, unprovoked, preplanned' attack| August 14, 2022, Sunday -
Geetanjali Shree's book 'Tomb of Sand' to be published in US in 2023
Tomb of Sand was first published in 2018 and released in English translation in 2021| June 03, 2022, Friday -
JNU congratulates alumna Geetanjali Shree on International Booker win
Jawaharlal Nehru University on Saturday congratulated its alumna Geetanjali Shree, whose Hindi novel has become the first book in ...| May 28, 2022, Saturday -
Top Headlines: Consumer sector deals rise; wheat mkts still on edge & more
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Meet Geetanjali Shree, first Booker awardee for an Indian language
First Booker International awardee for an Indian language, Geetanjali Shree shines the light on many Partition writers through ...| May 27, 2022, Friday
