LONDON — Britain’s Jim Crace and New Zealand’s Eleanor Catton are favorites to win Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for fiction,...
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton on Tuesday became the youngest winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction, claiming the award for her novel "The Luminaries.”
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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.
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 Man Booker International Prize revealed on Wednesday the “Man Booker Dozen,” the shortlist of 13 novels all nominated for...
Organizers are marking the anniversary with a year-long celebration and efforts to introduce new audiences to its longlisted, shortlisted and winning authors.
Here are key dates in the life of United States writer Philip Roth, who died Tuesday, May 22, aged 85.
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Hilary Mantel, Canada’s Michael Ondaatje and American author George Saunders are among five contenders for the...
LONDON (AP) — Canadian author Michael Ondaatje has again made the Man Booker Prize list with his latest novel “Warlight,”...
