A Booker Prize that catapulted him to the pantheon of global literary stalwarts to a fatwa by Iran's Supreme Leader that forced him into hiding and years of death threats, Mumbai-born author Salma...

An event to honour International Booker Prize winner Geetanjali Shree here on Saturday was called off by the organisers after a complaint was filed against the author alleging there are some objection...

The year 2002's Booker Prize Long List has been announced, reports The Guardian. The Booker Prize for 2022 is expected to be announced in October. Described as “challenging, stimulating, s...

Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of the Booker Prize-winning novel 'Midnight's Children', leads a list of over 40 professionals and community champions of Indian-origin to be honoure...

Sometimes, silence can speak a thousand words. Consider the hush that has befallen India’s right-wing political spectrum after India and the world were informed of Geetanjali Shree’s ...

The first-ever Indian winner of the International Booker Prize, Geetanjali Shree, has had a roller coaster few days since her Hindi novel Ret Samadhi' won the coveted literary honour for its Engli...

The political class has been largely muted in its response to a Hindi novel winning the International Booker Prize, but what has stood out is the silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is usually...

At a ceremony in London on Thursday, the writer said she was "completely overwhelmed" with the "bolt from the blue" as she accepted her prize, worth GBP 50,000, which was equally s...

Geetanjali Shree's novel Tomb of Sand has become the first book in an Indian language to win the prestigious International Booker Prize. Originally titled, Ret Samadhi, the novel is set in norther...

A “luminous novel of India and Partition”, Tomb of Sand, has won the 2022 International Booker Prize with the £50,000 reward to be shared between the author, Geetanjali Shree, and Da...