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Nobel laureate & short story master Alice Munro passes away at 92
Munro had been in frail health for years and often spoke of retirement, a decision that proved final after the author's 2012 collection, 'Dear Life.'
Alice Munro, Nobel literature winner revered as short story master, dead at 92
A spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Munro, winner of the Nobel literary prize in 2013, died Monday at home in Port Hope, Ontario. Munro had been in frail health for years and often spoke of retirement, a decision that proved final after the author's 2012 collection, "Dear Life."
Barbara Kingsolver, author of Dickensian coming-of-age novel ‘Demon Copperhead’, bags Women’s Prize for Fiction
Kingsolver's Appalachian coming-of-age tale was announced as winner of the 30,000 pounds ($38,000) award at a ceremony in London.
Poet Fatimah Asghar wins $150,000 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Ashgar's 'When We Were Sisters', the story of three Muslim-American siblings, was praised Thursday by judges for weaving "narrative threads as exacting and spare as luminous poems, their fragility a mere guise for their complete, unflinching indestructibility."
International Booker Prize jury announces shortlist; check out the ‘very cool’ candidates
The winner will be announced on May 23, 2023. The prize money will be shared between the author and the translator.
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Book on Chipko Movement by Shekhar Pathak bags Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Prize 2022
The prize carries a cash award of Rs 15 lakh, a trophy and a citation.
Girl power! The NIF Book Prize 2022 shortlist is all about upcoming women authors
The NIF Book Prize 2022 is all about celebrating the women of academia.
Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig win 2022 Nobel Economics Prize
The prize, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, is the last of this year's crop of Nobel awards and sees the winners share a sum of 10 million Swedish crowns ($883,954). The prizes carry a cash award of 10 million Swedish kronor (nearly $900,000) and will be handed out on Dec. 10.
Alan Garner, NoViolet Bulawayo & more: Booker Prize unveils 2022 shortlist including oldest finalist ever
The shortlist saw an equal split of men and women battling for the prize which can provide a career-changing boost.
Booker Prize 2022 longlist features 8 women, including 20-yr-old Leila Mottley; Alan Garner oldest nominee at 87
Out of the 8 women, 3 are debut novelists.
American-Canadian writer Ruth Ozeki's 'Book of Form and Emptiness' wins Women's Prize
The novel explores the complex relationship between people and their possessions.
Dadabhai Naoroji biography wins Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2021
The prize carries a cash award of Rs 15 lakh and a citation.
Susanna Clarke wins Women's Prize for Fiction for fantasy novel 'Piranesi'
Clarke said 'Piranesi' was "the book I never thought I would get to write. I never thought I would be well enough."
Booker Prize shortlist author Elif Shafak's 'The Island of Missing Trees' tells the story of love and war
The author didn't know how to approach the story until she found the fig tree.
Women's Prize for fiction shortlist includes authors Brit Bennett, Patricia Lockwood & Yaa Gyasi
The six-book shortlist also named novelists Cherie Jones, Susanna Clarke and Claire Fuller.
Maggie O'Farrell's 'Hamnet', imagined take on the death of Shakespeare's son, wins book critics award for fiction
It's an unfortunately well-timed story for the current pandemic.
Indian documentary 'Writing with Fire' by debut directors debut Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh wins audience award at Sundance Film Festival
'Fire in the Mountains', directed by debutant Ajitpal Singh, was another Indian title be screened at the festival.
Isabel Wilkerson's 'Caste' among finalists for National Book Critics Circle awards
Winners will be announced on March 25.
3 women debut authors - Deepa Anappara, Dharini Bhaskar & Annie Zaidi - dominate JCB 2020 shortlist
The list also features S Hareesh's 'Moustache' and Samit Basu's 'Chosen Spirits'.
'The Handmaid's Tale' writer Margaret Atwood honoured with Dayton Literary Peace Prize
The Dayton lifetime achievement award carries a $10,000 prize.
Ranchi woman wins £5,000 Commonwealth prize for Hindu-Muslim love story
The prize is judged by an international panel of writers, representing each of the five regions of the Commonwealth.
Man Booker Prize 2017: Mohsin Hamid, Paul Auster make it to the shortlist, Arundhati Roy misses out
The shortlist features three women and three men and covers a wide range of subjects.
Parashar Kulkarni becomes first Indian to bag the Commonwealth short story prize
The winning story, 'Cow and Company' is a narrative set in India about four men who go in search of a cow to feature in an advertisement.
West should provide jobs to curb extremism in Afghanistan: British journalist
According to British journalist Christina Lamb the onus lay with the west to create jobs in the country to stem the movement of youths towards extremist groups.
Obama presents National Humanities medal to Jhumpa Lahiri
Indian-American Lahiri was presented with the medal yesterday at the White House in the presence of luminaries from the field of arts and humanities.
Books about women less likely to win prizes, says study
Nicola Griffith found that for the Pulitzer, for example, "women wrote zero out of 15 prize-winning books wholly from the point of view of a woman or girl".
Jhumpa Lahiri, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi in DSC Prize shortlist
Lahiri's "The Lowland", an intimate portrayal of two brothers and political passion was earlier on the 2013 Man Booker Prize shortlist as well.
Why Patrick Modiano winning the Nobel in Literature would exasperate some
By picking the French writer for the Literature Nobel, the Swedish Academy wants us to choose something on the menu most of us haven’t tried before.
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