Desai's "Inheritance" wins fiction prize
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Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss," winner last fall of the Man Booker Prize, received another literary honor Thursday night: the National Book Critics Circle fiction award.
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Sandeep SawantÂs Marathi film Shwas was on Friday nominated for coveted Oscar awards in the foreign film category.
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A NOVEL full of explicit gay sex seduced the judges of the 2004 Man Booker Prize into picking its author for the Â£50,000 award. It was second time lucky for Alan Hollinghurst
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Avant-garde poet Michael Palmer has won the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize given annually for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry."
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India's entry for the Oscars tells a touching tale.
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(London) For the first time a gay novel has won the prestigious Booker Prize. Alan Hollinghurst was awarded the prize Tuesday night in London for the critically acclaimed &quot;The Line of Beauty.
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A new literary prize was launched on  Thursday with a top award of $100,000 for one lucky unpublished  U.S. writer, but publishing insiders warned that the $85 entry  fee makes it akin to a lottery.
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A new and lucrative literary prize has just been started, with some unusual credentials for the winner: The book must be unpublished and the author must not have an agent.
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It's often said that 'there is more than it meets the eye' and Vikram Bhatt's Elaan proves it.
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"Love's Brother," a romantic drama directed by Jan Sardi, won the &#36;50,000 grand prize at the Heartland Film Festival.
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Lily Tuck, this year's winner of the National Book Award for fiction, has a long history of writing about women at a loss in foreign lands. Over the past few weeks, she has been ensnared by one of this country's quirkier cultures: the publishing industry.
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Meet Meera Jasmine, the winner of this year's best actress award.
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A lost novel by a once-famous Jewish authoress who was murdered in Auschwitz is being hailed as the literary event of the year in France, not least because of the extraordinary and moving story that has finally led to its publication.
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Arts & entertainment: The TS Eliot prize has gone to the 2007 Forward prize winner - the first time the same collection has taken both awards in the same year
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An Austrian playwright and author has won this year&#39;s Nobel Prize for literature. Elfriede Jelinek will go away with more than a million euros in prize money but also the massive kudos of winning a Nobel award
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Reader Sateesh Pasikanti could not believe his luck.
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The 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded today to Elfriede Jelinek &quot;for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society&#39;s clichÃ©s and their subjugating power