Booker Prize

Indian writer-lawyer-activist Banu Mushtaq has scripted history by winning the International Booker prize for the short story anthology, Heart Lamp.

Fitzgerald was a late-blooming novelist who supported her whole family, including her troubled husband, and won the Booker Prize in 1979 for “Offshore” — a novel about a family who, like Fitzgerald’s own, lived on a houseboat on the Thames in London.

Sir Salman is the author of 22 works of fiction and non-fiction and won the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.

The German novelist most recently authored “Tyll,” shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize, and his translator, Ross Benjamin, has rendered his new historical fiction in idiomatic English prose.

Atwood started the millennium winning the Booker Prize with “The Blind Assassin,” a nested novel of historical fiction.