Indian poet Jeet Thayil is nominated for his first novel, 'Narcopolis,' set among 1970s heroin addicts.Hilary Mantel is the most favored author to win the 50,000 pound ($82,000) Booker Prize with 'Bring Up the Bodies,' a tale of Tudor treachery which follows the fates of the king's right-hand man, Thomas Cromwell, and the monarch's second wife, Anne Boleyn. It is the second book in a planned trilogy and a sequel to 'Wolf Hall,' for which Mantel won the Booker in 2009. Britain's Will Self - a well-known and often acerbic journalist - is also a strong contender for the century-spanning stream of consciousness 'Umbrella,' a novel about a woman with encephalitis. The book, which has no chapters and few paragraph breaks, was described by the Booker judges as 'moving and draining' and 'much less difficult than it first seems.'
05:55 PM, Oct 16, 2012

Hilary Mantel favorite to with the Man Booker 2012 London: Judges are choosing the winner of Britain's most prestigious literary trophy from a shortlist that includes novels set in the court of King Henry VIII and the opium dens of Mumbai. Hilary Mantel is favored to win the 50,000 pound ($82,000) Booker Prize with "Bring Up the Bodies," a tale of Tudor treachery which follows the fates of the king's right-hand man, Thomas Cromwell, and the monarch's second wife,...  
04:56 PM, Oct 16, 2012

Booker Prize for 2012 to be announced today New Delhi: The Man Booker Prize winner for 2012 will be announced today, as some are calling it "the book world's equivalent of Oscars night". India's Jeet Thayil is also in the running for his debut book Narcopolis, a prize worth 50,000 pounds. Indian writer Jeet Thayil's first novel 'Narcopolis', described as a compelling tale of Mumbai's hazy world of opium addiction, has made it to the six-author shortlist for...  
11:14 AM, Oct 16, 2012

'Swimming Home' is a worhty Man Booker nominee I am normally not a fan of Booker Long List of Short List nominations. I tend to find them boring to get by and honestly do not see the fuss made around them sometimes. However, when I started reading one of this year's shortlisted books, I began to see the light, at least for that book. 'Swimming Home' by Deborah Levy is an outstanding nominee for this year's much awaited...  
04:58 PM, Oct 15, 2012

Indian writer Jeet Thayil on Man Booker shortlist London: Indian writer Jeet Thayil's first novel 'Narcopolis', described as a compelling tale of Mumbai's hazy world of opium addiction, has made it to the six-author shortlist for the Man Booker Prize 2012 announced today. Apart from 53-year-old Kerala-born Thayil, authors on the shortlist are Deborah Levy, Hilary Mantel, Alison Moore, Will Self and Tan Twan Eng. The winner will be announced on October 16 at Londons Guildhall during a...  
05:37 PM, Sep 11, 2012