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Arundhati Roy in race for her second Man Booker Prize
Paul Auster, Colson Whitehead and past winner Arundhati Roy are among the contenders for this year’s Man Booker Prize for their fiction novels. Roy, who won the prize in 1997 for her fiction “The God of Small Things,” is in the race again with her long-awaited second novel, “The Ministry[Read More…]
Paul Beatty wins Man Booker Prize for ‘The Sellout’
Paul Betty became the first American writer to win the Man Booker Prize for the Sellout, a stinging satire on US racial politics that judges drawn comparison to Mark Twain and Jonathan Swift. Historian Amanda Forman, who chaired this year’s judging panel, called it a “novel for our times”, particularly[Read More…]