Literary awards
2022 Booker Prize
Shehan Karunatilaka recently received the 2022 Booker Prize for his novel “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”. Key facts The Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka won the Booker Prize for “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”. The novel was recognized ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2022
Category: Awards, Honours & Persons in News
Booker Prize 2020 won by Douglas Stuart
The Booker Prize of the year 2020 was won by Douglas Stuart for his debut novel “Shuggie Bain”. The shortlist of Booker Prize consisted of five more titles such as Burnt Sugar. The Burnt Sugar was published in India as ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2020
Olga Tokarczuk awarded Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk has won the 2018 Nobel Prize in literature for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life. Her first novel, “The Journey of the People of the ..
Jokha Alharthi wins 2019 Man Booker International Prize
An author from Oman, Jokha Alharthi has won the prestigious 2019 Man Booker International Prize for her novel “Celestial Bodies”, which reveals her Omani homeland’s post-colonial transformation. Her novel tells the story of three sisters of a desert country confronting ..
Richard Powers honoured with 2019 Pulitzer Prize in fiction category
Richard Powers has been honoured with the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in fiction category for his innovative novel ‘The Overstory’, which shows us the world through the perspective of nature.
Anna Burns wins 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Irish Author Anna Burns has won the prestigious 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her novel ‘Milkman’. With this, she became the first Northern Irish author and the first woman since 2013 to win the prize. Milkman is an ..
Malyalam poet M N Paloor passes away
Well-known Malayalam poet Paloor Madhavan Namboothiri (86), popularly known as M N Paloor, has passed away at Kovoor, Kerala on October 9, 2018. Paloor, one of the early poets to have modern views, is the author of some of the ..
Trinidad-born Indian origin author Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul passes away
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (85), the Trinidad-born Indian origin author, has passed away in London, England on August 12, 2018. He was known for his critical commentary on colonialism, idealism, religion and politics. Born in 1932 in Trinidad into an ..