Award-Winning Author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Dead

ABU DHABI: Kuwaiti writer Saud Al Sanaussi, 32, has won the Arab version of the Man Booker Prize for a novel focusing on the situation of migrant workers in the Gulf. The Bamboo Trunk explores the difficulties facing Asians in the region through the ...

holds his book, The Sea, after being named the winner of the 2005 Booker Prize at London's Guildhall. Banville is to be awarded the Austrian state prize for European literature in July, the government said Monday, praising the novelist's ...

New Delhi: Booker nominee Jeet Thayil, who has won the Sahitya Akademi and the DSC South Asian literature awards, leads the Indian race for the 2013 Commonwealth Book and Short Story Prizes. He is among six writers from the country who figure in the ...

The winner of the Man Booker's biennial selection of the best in international literature will be awarded next week. Many of the finalists are unfamiliar to English-language readers, so The Guardian has spoken to all 10 finalists. Read the first ...

Jordan Booker Jordan Booker has won the first LTA Volunteer of the Month Award in recognition for his help and support at Alverstoke Tennis Centre. Jordan, 14, has been volunteering for nearly three years where he is involved in helping on court ...

British writer and Booker winner Howard Jacobson has won this years Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction for his novel Zoo Time. He became the first writer to win the prize for second time. Jacobson won the prize in 2000 for The Mighty Waltzer. The Bollinger ...

The master bluesman was treated to a surprise tribute by 14-year-old protégé Quinn SullivanQuinn Sullivan(Photo: for NARM)Buddy Guy has earned another hefty trophy, straining a mantle already groaning under the weight of many honors the blues ...

For the first year in several, this year's nominee list does tell us something about the real state of South African jazz Kyle Shepherd. (Supplied) Our Coverage Jazz is not a competitive sport. For propaganda reasons during the Cold War, the United ...

The Miami Bayside Foundation this week awarded a gift of $50,000 to Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Inc. (NFTE), an internationally recognized organization that provides programs meant to inspire students from low-income communities to stay ...