Awards and prizes
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What does this year’s double Booker win mean for south Asian literature?
With Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka and India’s Geetanjali Shree taking home two of publishing’s biggest priz…
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Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Judges described the Sri Lankan author’s second novel as a ‘rollercoaster journey through life and death’ and …
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‘It’s the best way to live!’: International Booker winners Geetanjali Shree and Daisy Rockwell
The Indian novelist and her translator scooped the £50,000 prize with Tomb of Sand, a novel about death – but …
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First novel translated from Hindi wins International Booker prize
Author Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell share the £50,000 prize for ‘extraordinarily funny and f…
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Cast a wide net: award-winning photos from across the globe – in pictures
From Qatari fishermen to Peruvian chimpanzees, these images represent the best of the Sony World Photography a…
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World’s best building award won by rainwater-harvesting hospital in rural Bangladesh
RIBA’s international prize 2021 has been won by Kashef Chowdhury’s $2m Friendship hospital in a water-logged p…
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From child labourer to Oscar hopeful, the extraordinary life of PS Vinothraj
As a boy, the Tamil director saw movies made in the market where he worked. Now he’s India’s choice for awards…
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Social media creating virus of lies, says Nobel winner Maria Ressa
Filipino journalist and peace prize laureate says sites are biased against facts and in need of overhaulSocial…
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A £300 monsoon-busting home: the Bangladeshi architect fighting extreme weather
From a mosque that breathes to innovative bamboo houses, Marina Tabassum has won the prestigious Soane medal f…
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The New East photo prize 2020 shortlist – in pictures
Calvert 22 Foundation and The Calvert Journal have announced the finalists of the New East photo prize 2020. T…
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Ockhams erase her: surprise as Elizabeth Knox left off books award shortlist
Shock in New Zealand as writer, heavily favoured to win the fiction prize, is absent from list of nomineesNew …
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‘Bollywood Oscars’ comes home with first ceremony in India
20th international Indian film academy awards will be held in Mumbai this weekThe international Indian film ac…