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Booker nominated author Kiran Desai has written Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998) and The Inheritance of Loss.

2 Kiran Desai novels to read while we wait for Booker-nominated 'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny'

August 13, 2025 11:17 am

2025 Booker Prize longlist: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai's third novel, which is coming out after 19 years of her Booker-winning second novel, is set to release on September 25.

Anita Desai and her daughter Kiran Desai both of whom have made it to the booker prize longlist multiple times

As Kiran Desai eyes a second Booker, we remember 3 times her mother Anita Desai made it to the shortlist

August 08, 2025 11:33 am

As Kiran Desai returns to the Booker Prize longlist nearly two decades after her win, we look back at the three novels that earned her mother, Anita Desai, a place in the prize’s literary pantheon.

The 2025 Booker Prize longlist has been announced

Inside the 2025 Booker Prize longlist: A reader’s guide

August 08, 2025 11:35 am

Spanning nine nationalities and four continents, the 13 novels that make up the 2025 "Booker Dozen" trace fault lines both personal and political across war zones, classrooms, and intergenerational silences.

Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga acquitted in a case against her for inciting violence

May 11, 2023 4:51 pm

The 64-year-old author's alleged offence was carrying a placard asking for institutional reforms

The Booker Prize trophy has just been christened after writer Iris Murdoch. Here's what you need to know about her

April 09, 2023 8:17 pm

The statuette was named Iris after Bernandine Evaristo, the first Black woman to win the prize in 2019, refused the honour of having it named Bernie after her and Bernice Rubens, the first woman to win the prize in 1970

Explained: Leila Mottley, youngest on Booker long list, and her novel on surviving sexual abuse

July 28, 2022 9:14 am

Mottley is the youngest ever writer to make it to the Booker long list

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Booker Prize-winning novel Shuggie Bain to be adapted for television

December 04, 2020 1:04 pm

A24 and Scott Rudin Productions have got the rights to adapt the award-winning novel for television

Douglas Stuart hopes Booker win helps working class writers

November 25, 2020 5:39 pm

Stuart has won critical praise for the way he looks at addiction poverty and dashed dreams unflinchingly but with tenderness and humour.

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'So well deserved'! Avni Doshi, other writers congratulate Booker 2020 winner Douglas Stuart

November 20, 2020 12:23 pm

Scottish politician Nicola Sturgeon also took to social media to express her wishes for the win

Booker Prize 2020: What is Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain all about?

November 20, 2020 4:51 pm

Stuart's novel is a tightly-cut portrait of the working class but at its heart weaves a heart-rending tale of a family struggling to survive, and surviving as a struggle. It is also about children loving damaged parents and grappling with past to come to terms with their present.

India will be back on negotiating table in 1-2 months seeking a deal, 'saying sorry', says US Commerce Secretary Lutnick

India will be back seeking a deal, ‘saying sorry’, says US Commerce Secretary Lutnick

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US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick predicts that India will apologise and return to the negotiating table within the next month or two to sign a trade deal with the US. He urges India to choose between supporting the US or aligning with Russia and China. Lutnick also criticised India's retaliatory tariffs and calls Prime Minister Modi's meeting with Chinese and Russian leaders "bravado."

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