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Philip Roth wins Man Booker, sparks controversy

Philip Roth, the most decorated living American novelist, today won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize, beating off competition from 12 other contenders, including India-born Canadian......

Author George Plimpton dies

George Plimpton, the author of Paper Lion and other sporting adventures and a patron to Philip Roth, Jack Kerouac and countless other writers, has died at 76.Plimpton died Thursday night at his......

French author Patrick Modiano bags Nobel prize in literature

French writer Patrick Modiano has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, The Swedish Academy said on Thursday. The 69-year-old author beat Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Haruki Murakami, Svetlana......

Kannada author in Man Booker Prize shortlist

Kannada author UR Ananthamurthy has been shortlisted among 10 other authors for the international Man Booker Prize for fiction. Ananthamurthy, 80, is the only Indian among to have made it to the......

Mahasweta Devi in Man Booker long list

For decades, the admirers of the Bengali novelist Mahasweta Devi have been saying that she should be a major contender for the Nobel Prize. But since her books are not widely translated she......

No bedtime for bears as Nasdaq peak turns 3

The bears are not headed into hibernation yet, three years after Nasdaq peaked above 5,000 in a dot-com pipedream that turned into a nightmare.The giddy days of early 2000 are just a memory for......

A Maharashtrian Haunts Bollywood

Munjya is the most wildly entertaining ghost I have encountered at the movies recently.But he has the added advantage of being a Maharashtrian ghost, of possessing rhythms of speech and behaviour......

Hopkins's true colours revealed!

When Miramax released Neil Jordan's The Crying Game (Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Rea) over a decade ago, its distributor went out of the way to ask the audience not to reveal the......

Happi Review

'Surely a person like Happi deserves to be treated with dignity.''But does he deserve a two hour movie dedicated to his daftness, and to the failure of the rest of the world to come round to the......

What you DON'T KNOW about Nedumudi Venu

A Nedumudi Venu character was happiest when moving his head to a piece of music with his eyes closed; or, when inventing off of a note that a co-actor had left unfinished; or, when reciting a poem......

Who's gonna bag the Oscar?

In a year filled with less than stellar performance of many eagerly awaited movies such as The Last Samurai, the Oscar nomination hopes for Return Of The King look very bright right now. The buzz......

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Philip Roth

News for Philip Roth

Philip Roth wins Man Booker, sparks controversy

Author George Plimpton dies

French author Patrick Modiano bags Nobel prize in literature

Kannada author in Man Booker Prize shortlist

Mahasweta Devi in Man Booker long list

No bedtime for bears as Nasdaq peak turns 3

A Maharashtrian Haunts Bollywood

Hopkins's true colours revealed!

Happi Review

What you DON'T KNOW about Nedumudi Venu

Who's gonna bag the Oscar?

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