Hindustan Times
Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap was published in Australia in 2008. After winning the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2009, it came out in the UK this year (and, is, therefore, now available in India, too). Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, August 30, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Australia, Bad Sex Awards, Christos Tsiolkas, Colm Toibin, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Don DeLillo, India, John-Howard, Jonathan Franzen, Man Booker longlist, The Corrections, The Slap, UK, Underworld
Trashing writers – trashing some of England’s leading writers, no less – is what Gabriel Josipovici felt like doing at the end of last month. Read more
(6 votes, average: 3.83 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, August 16, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Filed under Books, Page Turner · Tagged Gabriel Josipovici, hindustan times, Huffington Post, Ian McEwan, Jhumpa Lahiri, Jonathan Safran Foer, Julian Barnes, Junot Diaz, Martin Amis, Michael Cunningham, modernist, Oxford University, Salman Rushdie, Sussex University, Weidenfeld
VS Naipaul has often said that he never had children because they would have got in the way of his writing. Read more
(6 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, August 2, 2010 at 6:56 pm
Filed under Books, Page Turner · Tagged biography, Books, children, Cyril Connolly, parenthood, Patrick French, VS Naipaul, Writers, writing
