"{Willie Dunne, son of the fictional Thomas Dunne, first appears as a minor but important character in ""The Steward of Christendom"".} Barry's 2008 novel, ""The Secret Scripture"" won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction (announced in August 2009), the oldest such award in the UK, the 2008 Costa Book of the Year (announced 27 January 2009) and in French translation ""Le testament caché"" it won the 2010 Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE. It was also a favourite to win the 2008 Man Booker Prize, narrowly losing out to Aravind Adiga's ""The White Tiger"". Sebastian Barry's most recent play"
"is a renowned journalist and the author of ""The Srinagar Conspiracy"" (2000). Suketu Mehta is another writer currently based in the United States who authored Maximum City (2004), an autobiographical account of his experiences in the city of Mumbai. In 2008, Arvind Adiga received the Man Booker Prize for his debut novel The White Tiger. Recent writers in India such as Arundhati Roy and David Davidar show a direction towards contextuality and rootedness in their works. Arundhati Roy, a trained architect and the 1997 Booker prize winner for her ""The God of Small Things"", calls herself a ""home grown"" writer."
"Eire. In 2008, Free Press published The White Tiger, Indian author Aravind Adiga's debut novel, which won the Man Booker Prize. Free Press (publisher) Free Press was an independent book publisher that later became an imprint of Simon & Schuster. It was one of the best-known publishers specializing in serious nonfiction, including path-breaking sociology books of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. After a period under new ownership in the 1980s of publishing neoconservative books, it was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1994. By 2012, the imprint ceased to exist as a distinct entity, however some books were still being"
"caste, loyalty, corruption and poverty in India. Ultimately, Balram transcends his sweet-maker caste and becomes a successful entrepreneur, establishing his own taxi service. In a nation proudly shedding a history of poverty and underdevelopment, he represents, as he himself says, ""tomorrow."" The novel has been well-received, making the ""New York Times"" bestseller list in addition to winning the Man Booker Prize. Aravind Adiga, 33 at the time, was the second youngest writer as well as the fourth debut writer to win the prize in 2008. Adiga says his novel ""attempt[s] to catch the voice of the men you meet as"
"this trend in 2005 when his novel ""The Sea"" was selected as a surprise winner: Boyd Tonkin, literary editor of ""The Independent"", famously condemned it as ""possibly the most perverse decision in the history of the award"" and rival novelist Tibor Fischer poured scorn on Banville's victory. Kiran Desai of India won in 2006. Anne Enright's 2007 victory came about due to a jury badly split over Ian McEwan's novel ""On Chesil Beach"". The following year it was India's turn again, with Aravind Adiga narrowly defeating Enright's fellow Irishman Sebastian Barry. Historically, the winner of the Man Booker Prize had"
"Selection Day Selection Day is a 2016 sports fiction novel written by Booker Prize winner Aravind Adiga. It was shortlisted along with four other writers for the 2017 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. It tells the story of Mohan Kumar, a chutney seller who trains his two sons: Manju Kumar and Radha Krishna for Mumbai's under-19 cricket team. Here Manju meets his rival, Javed. Laura Miller felt that Adiga comes closer than most in becoming a dickensian. She wrote: ""His characters are brightly and sharply drawn and animated with great energy; reading about his Mumbai is like taking a"
"Atlantic Books Atlantic Books is an independent British publishing house, with its headquarters in the Ormond House in Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden. It is perhaps best known for publishing Aravind Adiga's debut novel The White Tiger which received the 40th Man Booker Prize in 2008, and for its long-standing relationship with the late Christopher Hitchens. CEO Toby Mundy was listed by the Evening Standard as one of London's top 1000 most influential people in 2012. Atlantic Books was founded in February 2000 by Toby Mundy. It was originally the UK subsidiary of the American independent publisher Grove/Atlantic Inc. Grove/Atlantic"
"kills a white tiger for its fur. ""Seto Bagh"" (or 'White Tiger' in English) is a Nepali language novel by Diamond Shumsher Rana about an encounter with a white tiger. Aravind Adiga's novel ""The White Tiger"" won the Man Booker Prize in 2008. The central character and narrator refers to himself as ""The White Tiger"". It was a nickname given to him as a child to denote that he was unique in the ""jungle"" (his hometown), that he was smarter than the others. Video games including white tigers include ""Zoo Tycoon"", the ""Warcraft"" universe, and ""Perfect World International"". White tigers"
"in 2009. It also received the prestigious Tagore Literature Award, awarded by Sahitya Akademi in 2012. Sea of Poppies Sea of Poppies (2008) is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. It is the first volume of the Ibis trilogy. In the words of Rajnish Mishra, ""the Ibis trilogy is Ghosh's most vehement indictment of the scourge of imperialism and colonialism"". The second volume is ""River of Smoke"". The main characters include Deeti, an ordinary village woman, an ""octoroon"" American sailor named Zachary Reid, an Indian rajah / zamindar called"
"respectively. The winner, as chosen by a public vote, was Salman Rushdie's ""Midnight's Children"", and was announced on July 10 at the London Literature Festival. ""Midnight's Children"" not only won the 1981 Booker, but also the special 1993 Booker of Bookers prize, which commemorated the award's 25th anniversary. The shortlisted titles were: The Best of the Booker The Best of the Booker is a special prize awarded in commemoration of the Booker Prize's 40th anniversary. Eligible books included the 41 winners of the Booker Prize since its inception in 1969. The six shortlisted titles were announced on 12 May 2008"
"prize, after Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, and Kiran Desai. (V. S. Naipaul, another winner, is ethnically Indian but was born on the Caribbean island of Trinidad.) The five other authors on the shortlist included one other Indian writer (Amitav Ghosh) and another first-time writer (Steve Toltz). The novel studies the contrast between India's rise as a modern global economy and the lead character, Balram, who comes from crushing rural poverty. Adiga explained that ""criticism by writers like Flaubert, Balzac and Dickens of the 19th century helped England and France become better societies"". Shortly after he won the prize, it was"
"for 1997. ""Sea of Poppies"" was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. It was the co-winner of the Vodafone Crossword Book Award in 2009, as well as co-winner of the 2010 Dan David Prize. ""River of Smoke"" was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2011. The government of India awarded him the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2007. He also received - together with Margaret Atwood - the Israeli Dan David Prize. Ghosh famously withdrew his novel ""The Glass Palace"" from consideration for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, where it was awarded the best novel in the Eurasian"
"behalf of the woman, but is recognised by a relative, who tries to rape her and flog Kalua. Kalua manages to kill him. The novel closes with Neel, Ah Fatt, Jodu, Serang Ali and Kalua escaping in a longboat towards Singapore, while Deeti, Paulette, and Zachary proceed towards Mauritius. ""Sea of Poppies"" won the 2008 Vodafone Crossword Book Award for Fiction. It was shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. It won the 2008 British Book Design and Production Award. ""Sea of Poppies"" also won the Indiaplaza Golden Quill Award for best novel and Indiaplaza Golden Quill Popular Vote Award"
"Animal's People Animal's People is a novel by Indra Sinha. It was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and is the Winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best Book From Europe & South Asia. Sinha's narrator is a 19-year-old orphan of Khaufpur, born a few days before the 1984 Bhopal disaster, whose spine has become so twisted that he must walk on all fours. Ever since he can remember, he has gone on all fours. Known to every-one simply as Animal, he rejects sympathy, spouts profanity and obsesses about sex. He lives with a crazy old French nun"
"Indra Sinha Indra Sinha (born 1950 in Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a British writer of Indian and English descent. ""Animal's People"", his most recent novel, was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Europe and South Asia. Sinha is the son of an Indian naval officer and an English writer. He was educated at Mayo College, Ajmer, Rajasthan in India; Oakham School, Rutland, England and Pembroke College, Cambridge in England, where he studied English literature. He and his wife live in Sussex. They have three grown-up children. Formerly a copywriter"
"Ondaatje for his 1992 novel ""The English Patient"". The judges were (chosen decade in parentheses): The shortlisted works were: The Golden Man Booker The Golden Man Booker was a special one-off prize awarded in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Booker Prize. All of the previous 51 winning titles since the Booker's inception in 1969 were eligible. Five judges read the books from each relevant decade and chose a title which to be pitted against the judges' other choices. The judges' shortlist of five titles was announced on 26 May 2018, with voting also commencing that day. The winner"
"prize, and a winner is chosen. Unlike the real Man Booker (1969 through 2014), writers from outside the Commonwealth are also considered. In 2008, the winner for 1948 was Alan Paton's ""Cry, the Beloved Country"", beating Norman Mailer's ""The Naked and the Dead"", Graham Greene's ""The Heart of the Matter"" and Evelyn Waugh's ""The Loved One"". In 2015, the winner for 1915 was Ford Madox Ford's ""The Good Soldier"", beating ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" (John Buchan), ""Of Human Bondage"" (W. Somerset Maugham), ""Psmith, Journalist"" (P. G. Wodehouse) and ""The Voyage Out"" (Virginia Woolf). Booker Prize The Man Booker Prize for Fiction"
"prize winners in 1993 and 2008 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and 40th anniversary. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's ""best-loved novels"". It was also added to the list of Great Books of the 20th Century, published by Penguin Books. ""Midnight's Children"" is a loose allegory for events in India both before and, primarily, after the independence and partition of India. The protagonist and narrator of the story is Saleem Sinai, born at the exact moment when India became an independent country. He was born with telepathic powers, as"
"awards: ""Moon over Samarqand"", a novel by Mohamed Mansi Qandil, translated by Jennifer Peterson (2009), the original Arabic edition won the 2006 Sawiris Foundation Award for Literature ""The Lodging House"", a novel by Khairy Shalaby (2008), translated by Farouk Mustafa (pen-name Farouk Abdel Wahab), winner of the 2007 Saif Ghobash‒Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation Prize ""Desert Songs: A Woman Explorer in Egypt and Sudan"" by Arita Baaijens (2008), nominated best photo travel book of 2008 by Dutch travel bookshops ""The Collar and the Bracelet"", a novel by Yahya Taher Abdullah (AUC Press, 2008), translated by Samah Selim, winner of"
"known for his two best-selling books, ""India Unbound"" and ""The Difficulty of Being Good"". ""India Unbound"", is a narrative account of India from Independence to the global information age, and has been published in over a dozen languages and filmed by BBC. ""The Difficulty of Being Good: On the subtle art of dharma"" (Penguin 2009) examines contemporary moral failures through the lens of the millennia year old epic, the ""Mahabharata"". ""India Unbound"" is mainly about the transformation of India from birth of the writer in (1942) to (1999). The author majorly speaks about the Indian politics and the economy of"
"the United States in 2009. While it reveals the beauty of the rural, coastal south where it is set, its subject is the pathos, injustices and ironies of Indian life. The book had an initial print run of 16,000 copies, which is on the higher side for fiction in India. The stories take place in the fictitious town of Kittur in Southwest India. It was originally modeled on Adiga's hometown of Mangalore, but was substantially changed to make room for more diverse plots and characters. The stories revolve around different classes, castes and religions in India. In each story, another"
"published in 2008. This honour made him the second Hindi author to receive the honour after Harivansh Rai Bachchan in 1991. He was born on 1 August 1939 in Atarra, Banda, United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh). His parents were primary school teachers. His early education was completed in Banda, Uttar Pradesh, thereafter he did his BA and MA (English) from Allahabad University which in those days was known to be the ""Oxford of the East"". He taught for two years, graduate classes and in 1962 joined the Indian Revenue Service from which he retired in 1997 as Chairman, Central Board"
"Europe and the United States. It won the 2006 Man Booker Prize, as well as the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. In August 2008, Desai was a guest on ""Private Passions"", the biographical music discussion programme hosted by Michael Berkeley on BBC Radio 3. In May 2007 she was the featured author at the inaugural Asia House Festival of Cold Literature. She was awarded a 2013 Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. Kiran Desai Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel ""The Inheritance of Loss"" won the 2006 Man Booker"
"Sea of Poppies Sea of Poppies (2008) is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. It is the first volume of the Ibis trilogy. In the words of Rajnish Mishra, ""the Ibis trilogy is Ghosh's most vehement indictment of the scourge of imperialism and colonialism"". The second volume is ""River of Smoke"". The main characters include Deeti, an ordinary village woman, an ""octoroon"" American sailor named Zachary Reid, an Indian rajah / zamindar called Neel Rattan Halder, and Benjamin Burnham, an evangelist opium trader. The story is set prior to"
"Bainbridge, who has been nominated five times and yet has failed to win once. The prize is said to count as a Booker Prize. The nominees were An Awfully Big Adventure, Every Man for Himself, The Bottle Factory Outing, The Dressmaker and Master Georgie, which won. Similarly, The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to celebrate the prize's 40th anniversary. A shortlist of six winners was chosen and the decision was left to a public vote; the winner was again ""Midnight's Children"". In 2018, to celebrate the 50 anniversary, the Golden Man Booker was awarded. One book from"
"of 2018, Panagariya has written more than 15 books, including ""India: The Emerging Giant"", published in March 2008. Papers written by him for the World Bank and IMF usually promote the idea of privatizing all the state owned enterprises of India. It was described as the ‘definitive book on the Indian economy’ by Fareed Zakaria. He has appeared on Bloomberg TV India for the show ""Transforming India With Arvind Panagriya"" On 5 Jan 2015, he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the National Institution for Transforming India Aayog, the replacement for the Planning Commission. Panagariya is also heading analysing the data of"
"""Night of the Half Moon"" (published by Macmillan) and ""Parsa"" by the National Book Trust, respectively. Singh's favourite works included Leo Tolstoy's ""Anna Karenina"", Irving Stone's ""Lust for Life"", John Steinbeck's ""The Grapes Of Wrath"", Phanishwar Nath Renu's ""Maila Anchal"", Prem Chand's ""Godaan"" and Yashpal's ""Divya"". Singh received various awards over the course of his life, including the Sahitya Akademi Award in Punjabi in 1975 for the novel ""Adh Chanani Raat"", the Soviet Land Nehru Award in 1986, the Bhai Veer Singh Fiction Award in 1992, the Shiromani Sahitkar Award in 1992, the Jnanpith Award in 1999 and the Padma"
"a part-science fiction tale, was generally ignored by the public and literary critics. His next novel, ""Midnight's Children"" (1981), catapulted him to literary notability. This work won the 1981 Booker Prize and, in 1993 and 2008, was awarded the Best of the Bookers as the best novel to have received the prize during its first 25 and 40 years. ""Midnight's Children"" follows the life of a child, born at the stroke of midnight as India gained its independence, who is endowed with special powers and a connection to other children born at the dawn of a new and tumultuous age"
"best antidotes for poverty reduction."" The review in Foreign Affairs said, ""This is a massive research study that will command the respect of scholars who like to pore over tables, graphs, and charts in search of patterns and connections in the data."" Economist Sally Razeen said that by this book, ""Arvind Panagariya has written probably the best all-around, up-to-date, and accessible book on the Indian economy."" India: The Emerging Giant India: The Emerging Giant is a 2008 book by Arvind Panagariya which describes the contemporary state of the economy of India. Each chapter has a main topic and a set"
"its 2009 book awards. The Hindu American Foundation protested this decision, alleging inaccuracies and bias in the book. In February 2014, as part of settlement with plaintiff to a lawsuit brought before an Indian district court, ""The Hindus"" was recalled by Penguin India. Indian authors such as Arundhati Roy, Partha Chatterjee, Jeet Thayil, and Namwar Singh inveighed against the publisher's decision. The book has since been published in India by Speaking Tiger Books. Doniger has written 16 books, translated (primarily from Sanskrit to English) with commentary nine other volumes, has contributed to many edited texts and has written hundreds of"
"campaign ""glossy falsehoods"", and quotes artist Paul Phare (who created a set of e-cards in response to Dow) “Telling a lie beautifully does not make it true.” Indra Sinha Indra Sinha (born 1950 in Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a British writer of Indian and English descent. ""Animal's People"", his most recent novel, was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Europe and South Asia. Sinha is the son of an Indian naval officer and an English writer. He was educated at Mayo College, Ajmer, Rajasthan in India; Oakham School, Rutland,"
"The Best of the Booker The Best of the Booker is a special prize awarded in commemoration of the Booker Prize's 40th anniversary. Eligible books included the 41 winners of the Booker Prize since its inception in 1969. The six shortlisted titles were announced on 12 May 2008 and were chosen by novelist Victoria Glendinning, broadcaster Mariella Frostrup and Professor of English at University College London John Mullan. Among the nominees were the only two authors at that time to have won the Booker twice, Peter Carey and J. M. Coetzee, nominated for their novels ""Oscar & Lucinda"" and ""Disgrace"""
"red zone in Iraq and the no-man's land in Sri Lanka to bring trauma relief, the promotion of yoga and meditation as a universal solution for healing and physical and mental peace, the World Cultural Festival where he brought together close to 3.5 million people in New Delhi, India in March 2016 to celebrate human values – the book shares anecdotes and insights associated with his life choices as a spiritual master and humanitarian. The book has been published in English () in 2018 by Westland Publications Ltd. It has been translated into Hindi (), Tamil (), Bulgarian, Lithuanian (),"