British writer Hilary Mantel won the prestigious Booker literary prize for a second time on Tuesday with her blood-soaked Tudor saga Bring Up the Bodies, which the head of the judging panel said had “

British author Julian Barnes on Tuesday won the 2011 Man Booker Prize, one of the highest-profile awards in English-language literature, for his novel 'The Sense of an Ending'.

Barnes, who has been s

Indian-origin novelist Rohinton Mistry is among 13 authors shortlisted for the prestigious USD 96,070 Man Booker International Prize, where strangely British thriller writer John Le Carre withdrew his

British author Howard Jacobson has won the prestigious Booker Prize for his comic novel The Finkler Question, beating five others including two-time winner Peter Carey and the bookies’ favour