カテゴリー: Awards and prizes
Buddhist spiritual leader wins best audiobook and says he sees win ‘as a recognition of our shared universal responsibility’Bad Bunny and Kendrick Lamar win big in Grammys ceremony filled with anti-ICE sentimentThe Dalai Lama has taken home his first G…
With Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka and India’s Geetanjali Shree taking home two of publishing’s biggest prizes, what next for one of the world’s most overlooked literary regions? Why isn’t more south Asian fiction published outside the subcontinent?…
Judges described the Sri Lankan author’s second novel as a ‘rollercoaster journey through life and death’ and praised its audacity and ambitionThe Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has won the Booker prize for fictio…
The Indian novelist and her translator scooped the £50,000 prize with Tomb of Sand, a novel about death – but with laughs. The morning after their triumph they talk about fun, feminism and famous ancestors“If you handle a heavy thing with lightness, yo…
Author Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell share the £50,000 prize for ‘extraordinarily funny and fun’ Tomb of SandGeetanjali Shree’s “extremely exuberant and incredibly playful” Tomb of Sand, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, has won…
From Qatari fishermen to Peruvian chimpanzees, these images represent the best of the Sony World Photography awards 2022, taken from 61 countries Continue reading…
RIBA’s international prize 2021 has been won by Kashef Chowdhury’s $2m Friendship hospital in a water-logged part of Bengal, beating competition from David Chipperfield and Wilkinson EyreA small brick hospital in rural Bangladesh with its own zigzaggin…
As a boy, the Tamil director saw movies made in the market where he worked. Now he’s India’s choice for awards gloryAs a child labourer working in the flower markets of Madurai, there was nothing more exciting for PS Vinothraj than when the film crews …
From a mosque that breathes to innovative bamboo houses, Marina Tabassum has won the prestigious Soane medal for her humanitarian buildingsFor the people of coastal Bangladesh, the monsoon can bring untold torment – and, occasionally, unexpected joy. E…
Calvert 22 Foundation and The Calvert Journal have announced the finalists of the New East photo prize 2020. This year marks the third edition of the competition, which celebrates contemporary photography from eastern Europe, the Balkans, Russia, and c…
Shock in New Zealand as writer, heavily favoured to win the fiction prize, is absent from list of nomineesNew Zealand’s most prestigious literary prize, The Ockhams, has caused controversy after one of the country’s most popular writers was left off it…
20th international Indian film academy awards will be held in Mumbai this weekThe international Indian film academy awards – known as the Bollywood Oscars – are to be held in India for the first time in their history this week.Mumbai will host the 20th…