Tag: Booker Prize Winner


  • Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within a vast energy-broth, but then we named them, and loved them, and, in this way, brought them forth. And now we must lose them. Abraham Lincoln repeatedly visited the graveyard where his son Willie, who died at the age…

  • NEW DELHI:  She writes poetic prose, employs redolent metaphors and evokes utmost admiration for her novelistic virtues. Arundhati Roy is anything but a boring author.   The 1997 Booker Prize-winner, who is equally at ease writing scathing essays, says she is a โ€œdisciplined writerโ€ whose heart lies in fiction as it is a โ€œconnective tissueโ€ between…