Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and writer Katherine Boo won the national book award for nonfiction for 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity,' which sheds light on the lives of India's poor as well as government corruption.
Author Louise Erdrich took the top fiction award for her moving novel 'The Round House,' about a woman raped in a Native American community, at the annual national book awards in New York on Wednesday.
David Ferry's 'Bewilderment' won for poetry and William Alexander's 'Goblin Secrets' won the young people's literature award.
The National Book Foundation, which administers the awards, nominated five writers in each of four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature....
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11:31 AM, Nov 15, 2012
New York: A story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan for the New Yorker is being serialised in 10 installments on Twitter, according to the magazine. The New Yorker said the first installment of the story, a spy thriller called "Black Box, went out on Thursday night. "The story is written in terse dispatches of 140 characters or less, which will be tweeted, through The New Yorker Fiction Department's Twitter...
11:06 AM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Born as Robert Allen Zimmerman, American musician Bob Dylan has turned 71 today. A hugely influential figure in American popular culture, Bob Dylan at times is described as one of the key people behind creating a social unrest of early 70s. Some of his songs such as 'Blowing in the Wind' and 'The Times' were treated as the vocal interpretation of civil rights, and anti-war movements. 'Like a...
11:21 AM, May 24, 2012
New York: Starting this week and continuing into 2012, virtually all Michael Chabon novels, stories and other writings will become available as e-books; news the author looks upon with pleasure and resignation. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," Chabon has been a published author since 1988, long enough to land on both sides of the legal and financial digital divide. Chabon controls e-rights...
11:42 PM, Dec 20, 2011
New York: The Pulitzer Prize board is changing how news organizations can enter its competition and says all submissions must now be done online. The board announced on Wednesday that paper submissions would no longer be accepted. Instead, a digital entry form will go through the Pulitzer website. Paper submissions have been in use since the contest began in 1917. The board says the new system will streamline the process...
07:01 PM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: The latest biography on Mahatma Gandhi, 'Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India' is not even available here yet, but Gujarat and Maharashtra are banning it. The central government is deciding not to, after some consideration. The Pulitzer Prize winning author and former New York Times executive editor Joseph Lelyveld has trashed media reports that have stirred up a controversy, also saying that a ban reflects...
10:13 AM, Apr 01, 2011
