Nobel prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer took her last breath at her home in Johannesburg. She was 90. The South African writer, who was known for strong voice against apartheid, died following a......
Author Alice Munroe won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. The 82-year-old became the first Canada-based writer to win the honour. Munroe will be presented with her award at a formal......
India-born controversial author Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children' has established an unassailable lead over five other contenders in global public voting for the Best of the Booker award. The......
Over the years many readers have asked Kiran Desai, who has just been nominated for this year's Man Booker Prize, what it means to be a writer in her mother's shadow. Now, the New York based......
Indian-orgin writer Kiran Desai's novel The Inheritance of Loss has made it to the long list for the 2006 Man Booker fiction prize along with 18 other works.Kiran is the daughter of noted writer......
She said, in her Oscar acceptance speech, "I know everybody in New Zealand has been thanked. So I'm going to thank everybody in South Africa, my home country. They're all watching tonight. And I'm......