Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author of the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” saga, has died. She was 70. Mantel died “suddenly yet peacefully” surrounded by close family and friends, publisher HarperCollins said Friday. Mantel is credited with reenergizing historical fiction with…
Abdulrazak Gurnah emerges winner of 2021 Nobel Literature Prize
Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian novelist from Zanzibar has been announced winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding him the prize, the Swedish Academy praised Gurnah for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and…
Tsitsi Dangarembga – Booker Prize nominee arrested in Zimbabwe
Award-winning Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, a nominee for this year’s Booker Prize, has been arrested in the country’s capital, Harare, during an anti-government protest. Dangarembga, 61, and another protester were bundled into a police lorry while carrying placards. The government…
