Tag: Man Booker Prize

London: Anna Burns from Northern Ireland has won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for her third novel “Milkman”. She won the much coveted 50,000 pound award for her timely, troubles-set novel about a young woman being sexually harassed by a powerful man. Burns, 56, became the first Northern Irish winner of the award and accepted […]

London: Leading American short story writer George Saunders has been declared as the winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for fiction for his “unique” and “extraordinary” debut novel “Lincoln in the Bardo”. Saunders’ win was announced by Lola Baroness Young, the chair of the judging committee, at a dinner at London’s Guildhall late on […]

London: Israeli author David Grossman won the prestigious 2017 Man Booker International prize in London for his latest novel “A Horse Walks into a Bar”. Grossman on Wednesday night beat his compatriot Amos Oz and four other contenders for the prize, which is awarded to writers of foreign language fiction translated into English, reports Efe […]

London: A novel about an Israeli stand-up comic having a meltdown on stage is one of six titles shortlisted for this year’s Man Booker International Prize, the media reported on Friday. David Grossman’s “A Horse Walks Into a Bar” is one of two books by Israeli authors in line for the 50,000 pounds ($64,060) award, the […]