Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2022 Booker Prize
Oct 18,2022:Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has been named the winner of the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction for his second ...
Nobel literature prize 2022 awarded to French author Annie Ernaux
Oct 07,2022:The Nobel prize in literature for the year 2022 was awarded to Annie Ernaux on Thursday at the Swedish Academy in ...
Assam poet and Konkani novelist receive Jnanpith Award
Nilmani Phookan JrDamodar MauzoDec 8,2021:Assamese poet Nilmani Phookan Jr won the 56th Jnanpith Award and Konkani novelist Damodar ...
South African novelist Damon Galgut wins 2021 Booker Prize for ‘The Promise’
London [UK], November 4 ,2021: South African novelist Damon Galgut on Wednesday won the 2021 Booker Prize for his novel ‘The ...
Abdulrazak Gurnah wins 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
Stockholm, Oct 7,2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced here on Thursday.
The ...
Kannada lexicographer G Venkatasubbaiah passes away at 107
Bengaluru (Karnataka), April 19,2021: Kannada writer, editor and lexicographer G Venkatasubbaiah passed away due to age-related issues ...
Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian author and women’s rights icon, dies
Mar 22,2021: World-renowned Egyptian author Nawal El Saadawi, an outspoken champion of women’s rights in the Arab world, has died at ...
Eminent poet-activist Sugathakumari no more
Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 23 ,2020: Eminent Malayalam poet, conservationist and women”s activist, Sugathakumari, who had tested ...
Master spy writer John le Carre dead at 89
Dec 15,2020:LONDON, UK — John le Carre, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War ...
British writer Douglas Stuart wins UK’s Booker Prize
London , November 20,2020: British writer Douglas Stuart has won the UK’s Booker Prize for his first published novel Shuggie ...