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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 finest Malayalam poems of the latter half of the 20th century. His poems traced the ..
Topics: Indian Literature • Kerala Sahitya Akademi • Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award • Literary awards • M. N. Paloor • Malayali people • Paloor • Writers
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 Indian Hindu family, he wrote more than 30 books of fiction and non-fiction including ‘A ..
Topics: A Bend in the River • A House for Mr Biswas • Biswas • British literature • Literary awards • Magic Seeds • Postcolonial literature • V. S. Naipaul • Writers
The English Patient novel wins 2018 Golden Man Booker Prize
‘The English Patient’, the wartime love story by Michael Ondaatje, has won the Golden Man Booker Prize at the closing event of the Man Booker 50 Festival in Royal Festival Hall at Southbank Centre in London on July 8, 2018. The prize was instituted to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker prize. The ..
Topics: Booker • Booker Prize • J • Literary awards • Literature • Michael Ondaatje • The English Patient • The Golden Man Booker • Writers
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk wins prestigious 2018 Man Booker International Prize for fiction
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk has won the prestigious 2018 Man Booker International Prize for fiction for her novel ‘Flights’. The novel, translated by Jennifer Croft, interweaves narratives of travel with explorations of the human body. It combines tales of modern-day travel with the story of a 17th century anatomist who dissected his own amputated leg ..
Topics: Booker Prize • Flights • International Booker Prize • J • Jennifer Croft • Literary awards • Literature • Olga Tokarczuk • Tokarczuk • Writers
George Saunders wins 2017 Man Booker Prize
US author George Saunders has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for his first full-length novel “Lincoln in the Bardo” and became only the 2nd American writer to win £50,000 ($66,000) Britain’s prestigious English-language literary award. The book is a fictional account of US President Abraham Lincoln burying his 11-year-old son Willie at a Washington ..
Topics: Bardo • Beatty • Booker Prize • George Saunders • Lincoln • Lincoln in the Bardo • Literary awards • Literature • Paul Beatty • The Sellout • Writers