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.
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Hilary Mantel, Canada’s Michael Ondaatje and American author George Saunders are among five contenders for the...
NEW DELHI— Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy and two dozen Bollywood award winners added their voices to the artists, scientists...
RAMALLAH, West Bank — A Gaza novelist who was shortlisted for a prestigious Arabic literature prize but...
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".
Indian author Arundhati Roy is set to publish her second novel, 20 years after "The God of Small Things" earned her the Booker Prize.
by Claire LEE A head pops out of the toilet, a woman gets pregnant from birth control pills — South...
"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."
Tributes poured in Sunday for Nobel prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul, who has died aged 85, including from many of those...
Two previous winners, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie, were shortlisted on Tuesday for the Booker Prize for the best English-language...
