Booker Prize 2019: Some interesting facts about the literary honour | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Booker Prize 2019: Some interesting facts about the literary honour | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By Lifestyle Desk |New Delhi |Published: October 14, 2019 3:19:57 pm

Booker Prize 2019: Some interesting facts about the literary honour

Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger (2008), Kiran Desai for The Inheritance of Loss (2006) and Arundhati Roy for The God of Small Things (1997) are the three Indian authors who have won this honour in the past.

The winner will be announced today.

The recipient of the Booker Prize 2019 will be announced today. The shortlist includes The Testaments by Margaret Atwood; Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann; Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo; Quichotte by Salman Rushdie; 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak and An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma. In the past, both Atwood and Rushdie have been recipients of the prize.