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Scottish author Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize 2020 for his debut novel Shuggie Bain
"I cannot believe this. Shuggie is a work of fiction but writing the book was extremely healing …
PTI
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Salman Rushdie, who dealt with death threats for his work gets another mention in the Booker Prize longlist
He is known to have penned down all the time he hided in his own autobiography, Joseph Anton…
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The Man Booker Prize is the UK equivalent of America's Pulitzer Prize for books - these are all the finalists from the past 5 years
To win the Man Booker Prize is to be declared the best fiction book of the year that was written in…
Mara Leighton
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Arundhati Roy awarded Pen Pinter Prize for her 'unflinching' writing
The judges noted Roy's incisive commentary on issues ranging from environmental degradation to huma…
PTI
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Man Booker: Embracing A New Language, Casting Expressions In A Different Mold
While English as a language has been traversing through unknown terrains, appropriating expressions…
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Hulu is making a sequel TV series to 'The Handmaid's Tale' based on the new book coming out this month
"The Handmaid's Tale" won the Emmy for outstanding drama series in 2017 for its first season. Revie…
Travis Clark
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Here are the top books of Jaipur Literature Festival for the past decade
The air is crisp and it is the perfect weather to cozy up with a book and maybe brave the chilly wi…
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2 political superstars might have dropped the ball on Zuckerberg's plan to remake Newark schools
"Cory Booker told [Zuckerberg], and what [Zuckerberg] banked on - was that in five years, they woul…
Abby Jackson
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Booker winner Geetanjali Shree says the line between mundane and epic is thin
"I always start with curiosity about a mundane event. In this case, it was about an elderly woma…
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Cory Booker's tax returns show an eye-popping financial stat that sets him apart from every other 2020 Democrat
Booker's tax returns also reveal that prior to 2018, a bulk of his income came from royalties and p…
Sarah Gray,Sarah Gray
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White author won't translate Amanda Gorman's works after criticism it was inappropriate
The Netherlands' Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, the youngest author to win the International Booker Prize…
Naina Bhardwaj
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Lolita Chakrabarti's stage adaptation of 'Life of Pi' to take centerstage in Broadway, New York
The stage adaptation of Canadian author Yann Martel's Booker Prize-winning novel 'Life of Pi' shine…
PTI
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Canadian Novelist Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize In Literature
Her subjects and her writing style, such as a reliance on narration to describe the events in her b…
Agence France Presse
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'Zuckerberg had no idea what he was getting himself into' with his $100 million donation to Newark public schools
But instead, the opposite occurred. Chris Cerf, the New Jersey commissioner of education at the tim…
Abby Jackson
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How Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million donation to Newark schools turned into a political mess
Initial funds go to a bevy of consultants, most of them white, most of them well connected, some of…
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How YouTuber Jack Edwards went from making college content to becoming a top book creator
Edwards diversifies his business as a book-content creator with brand deals tangential to reading, …
Marta Biino
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Dave Chappelle endorses Andrew Yang for president: 'I'm Yang Gang!'
"Dave is one of the most important voices in our country today and I'm thrilled he has thrown his s…