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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 “Girl in White Cotton”. It also included “The New Wilderness” by Diane Cook, “The Shadow ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2020
Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News
Topics: Barack Obama • Booker Prize • International Booker Prize • Literary awards • Novels • US President Barack Obama
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 Book,” was released in 1993. She has also won the Booker International Prize for her ..
Topics: Awards • Flights • G. • International Booker Prize • Literary awards • Literature • Nobel Prize • Nobel Prize in Literature • Olga Tokarczuk • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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 its slave-owning past and a complex modern world. With this feat, Alharthi has become the ..
Topics: Booker Prize • International Booker Prize • Jokha al-Harthi • Literary awards • Literature • Marilyn Booth • Writers
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.
Topics: Awards • Literary awards • Pulitzer Prize • Richard Powers • The Overstory • Writers
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 exploration of Northern Ireland’s three decades of sectarian violence told through the voice of a ..
Topics: Anna Burns • Booker Prize • Ireland • Irish literature • Literary awards • Literature • Man Booker Prize • Milkman • Sectarian violence • Sectarianism