Tayari Jones Current Affairs, GK & News

Women’s Prize for Fiction: American author Tayari Jones wins

American novelist Tayari Jones won this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction for her fourth novel “An American Marriage“. It is one of the biggest international celebrations of women’s creativity. Key Highlights Her book competed against five other shortlisted authors, including two former Booker prize winners namely Anna Burns (novel “Milkman” won booker prize for 2018) ..

Month: Current Affairs - June, 2019

Category: Awards, Persons & Places in News

Topics: An American Marriage • Anna Burns • Bessie • Book Prize • Grazia First Chapter Competition • Helen Rogers • Kate Mosse • Milkman • Pat Barker • Tayari Jones • The Silence of the Girls • United Kingdom • Women's Prize for Fiction

Tayari Jones wins 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction

American author Tayari Jones has won the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel “An American Marriage”. The book portraits a young African American’s wrongful conviction and how it affects his marriage. It is a story of love, loss and loyalty, the resilience of the human spirit painted on a big political canvas – ..

Topics: African-American literature • American writers • An American Marriage • Psychological resilience • Tayari Jones