New Delhi: Salman Rushdie will return to India this week to speak at a conference, under two months after death threats forced the Booker Prize-winning author to pull out of Asia's biggest literary festival, the event organiser said on Tuesday. Rushdie's attempt to visit India in January brought protests from some Indian Muslim groups, which consider his 1988 novel 'The Satanic Verses' blasphemous because of the way it portrayed the...
09:59 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Mumbai: Adding a new twist to the controversy over Salman Rushdie's participation in the Jaipur Literature Festival, sources in Mumbai Police denied giving any inputs about paid assassins. The sources countered the Booker-winning author's claim that paid assassins were out to get him. The sources told CNN-IBN there were no intelligence inputs about a threat to Rushdie and that they gave no inputs regarding paid assassins eyeing Rushdie. BJP Leader...
12:23 PM, Jan 21, 2012
London: Julian Barnes, who won this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Carol Ann Duffy, Britain's poet laureate, were among the nominees for the 2011 Costa Book Awards announced on Tuesday. English author Barnes is one of four shortlisted for the best novel category for "The Sense of an Ending", the work that won him the coveted Booker award last month at the fourth time of asking. Scottish writer...
01:30 PM, Nov 16, 2011
London: It was fourth time lucky for British writer Julian Barnes, who won literature's Booker Prize on Tuesday after a contest that had as many insults, rivalries and bitter accusations as a paperback potboiler. Barnes, a finalist on three previous occasions who once described the contest as "posh bingo," finally triumphed with "The Sense of an Ending," a memory-haunted novel about a 60-something man forced to confront buried truths about...
03:23 AM, Oct 19, 2011
Whether or not you've read the Booker Prize-winning The English Patient, try out 'The Cat's Table'. They're leagues apart in subject and theme, and it's quite clear that Michael Ondaatje's a master - his graceful use of language and effortless scene-setting ensure you glide right into the story. It's almost a travesty to try and sum up the journey you'll take with the boys sitting at 'The Cat's Table'. The...
06:07 PM, Oct 18, 2011
London: English author and four-time nominee Julian Barnes, who once dismissed the Man Booker Prize for fiction as "posh bingo," is favored to win it on Tuesday with his novel "The Sense of an Ending." The annual award to a writer in English from the Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe is a major event in the publishing calendar, significantly boosting publicity and sales for shortlisted and winning works. It is also...
08:47 PM, Oct 17, 2011
The only reason I wanted to read 'The Sisters Brothers' was its title. The title is unusual and that is what got me to the book in the first place. Way before the Booker hoopla. To add to it, the book junkie in me also loved the cover " much so lusted after it, so there was no way I was not going to read it, and I am glad...
07:40 PM, Sep 12, 2011
'Pigeon English' is narrated by Harrison Opoku, an eleven-year-old who has recently moved from Ghana to a high rise flat in inner city London. When a boy is stabbed near his home Harri teams up with CSI fan and friend Dean to try and solve the murder. Hes also busy trying to fit in and learn the street smarts necessary to survive while showing a more innocent side, caring for...
06:18 PM, Sep 12, 2011
We are what we remember. But imagine, suddenly, that you were confronted with incontrovertible evidence that what you remember is wrong. That, in fact, you behaved in a very different way than you remember at a key point in your past. Would it change your sense of identity, or alter your understanding of the world? This is the central theme in 'The Sense of an Ending' by Julian Barnes, more...
05:09 PM, Sep 12, 2011
The first novel by the author of 'The Earl of Petticoat Lane', an engaging family history set in Londons East End, was always going to be good. But 'Snowdrops' is astonishingly good. Think Isaac Bashevis Singer crossed with Dashiell Hammett and just a hint of Dostoievsky, all translated into the idiom of a modern Moscow marinated in sex and corruption. It is atmospheric; it is painful; but it is also,...
01:39 PM, Sep 12, 2011
London: English author Julian Barnes was one of six authors shortlisted for the coveted Man Booker Prize for Fiction on Tuesday, and he is the bookmakers' favourite to win the award when it is announced in October. Barnes, nominated for 'The Sense of an Ending', appears on the shortlist for the fourth time following 'Flaubert's Parrot' (1984), 'England, England' (1998) and 'Arthur and George' (2005), but has never won. His...
06:08 PM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: The longlist for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction - the 'Man Booker Dozen' - is announced. The 13 books on the list include: one former Man Booker Prize winner; two previously shortlisted writers and one longlisted author; four first time novelists and three Canadian writers. The list also includes three new publishers to the prize - Oneworld, Sandstone Press and Seren Books. The titles were chosen...
09:17 PM, Jul 26, 2011
Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga's latest book 'Last man in Tower' tells the story of contemporary Mumbai. ...
02:15 PM, Jul 10, 2011
Sydeny: Philip Roth, the much-lauded author of 'Portnoy's Complaint', won the biennial Man Booker International Prize on Wednesday, adding to a collection of prizes that includes two National Book Awards. Roth, whose work includes his noted 1959 debut 'Goodbye, Columbus', has also won the Pulitzer Prize for 'American Pastoral', featuring favoured narrator Nathan Zuckerman. In October, he told Reuters that he disliked e-books and the distracting influences of modern technology,...
02:02 PM, May 18, 2011
London: Organizers of the Booker Prize have recognized often-nominated Beryl Bainbridge with a posthumous "best of" award. The special prize, which pitted Bainbridge's five Booker-nominated books against each other in a "Best of Beryl" competition, went to "Master Georgie," a 1998 novel set during the Crimean War. The prize's literary director Ion Trewin called Bainbridge a "very gracious nonwinner" and said Tuesday that while she may have been the "eternal...
01:15 PM, Apr 21, 2011
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