5 Stories on Booker Prize Foundation
Judges laud Adiga's tale of murder and social injustice in modern India as an entertaining yet disturbing read
Aravind Adiga, a former writer for TIME who wrote about issues in India, has won the prestigious Man Booker prize for his first novel
In Salman Rushdie's new novel, "The Enchantress of Florence," the exasperated Mughal emperor Akbar the Great agrees to let a mysterious Florentine adventurer, Mogor dell'Amore, finish a tale. But as the troublesome Mogor prepares to continue, Akbar says with a touch of venom: "A curse on all storytellers. And a pox on your children, too."
Salman Rushdie's 1981
novel "Midnight's Children" was named Thursday as the
greatest-ever winner of Britain's most prestigious literary
award
He is a blockbuster novelist and Booker Prize winner, whose adapted work was tipped for Oscar glory.
Judges laud Adiga's tale of murder and social injustice in modern India as an entertaining yet disturbing read
Aravind Adiga, a former writer for TIME who wrote about issues in India, has won the prestigious Man Booker prize for his first novel
In Salman Rushdie's new novel, "The Enchantress of Florence," the exasperated Mughal emperor Akbar the Great agrees to let a mysterious Florentine adventurer, Mogor dell'Amore, finish a tale. But as the troublesome Mogor prepares to continue, Akbar says with a touch of venom: "A curse on all storytellers. And a pox on your children, too."
Salman Rushdie's 1981
novel "Midnight's Children" was named Thursday as the
greatest-ever winner of Britain's most prestigious literary
award
He is a blockbuster novelist and Booker Prize winner, whose adapted work was tipped for Oscar glory.
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