British author Julian Barnes on Tuesday won the 2011 Man Booker Prize, one of the highest-profile awards in English-language literature, for his novel "The Sense of an Ending".
Australian literature-lovers cheered Wednesday after Richard Flanagan won the prestigious Booker Prize with a visceral story of wartime brutality and its aftermath — a novel the head of the judging team said was as powerful as a kick in the stomach.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — A Gaza novelist who was shortlisted for a prestigious Arabic literature prize but...
LONDON — Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Anne Tyler and Jamaica’s Marlon James are among six finalists for the 50,000-pound ($77,000)...
NEW DELHI— Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy and two dozen Bollywood award winners added their voices to the artists, scientists...
Novels about fractured families, a fractured Europe and the fractured state of race relations in the United States are among six finalists for the prestigious Man Booker Prize.
Indian author Arundhati Roy is set to publish her second novel, 20 years after "The God of Small Things" earned her the Booker Prize.
A tale of murder and class warfare in the Scottish Highlands by a little-known novelist is one of the favorites to win this year's Booker Prize for literature on Tuesday.
"The endless parade of oddballs and eccentrics can get a little exhausting, rather like a party at which new guests keep arriving, but Roy's policy of indiscriminate inclusion is not just an editorial choice; it is the literary expression of solidarity."
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Hilary Mantel, Canada’s Michael Ondaatje and American author George Saunders are among five contenders for the...
