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Anita Desai knows from cruel experience about the horrors of competing for big literary awards. Three times the renowned Indian novelist has been a finalist for the MAN Booker Prize for fiction, and three times she's failed to win it. But last week, says Desai, the stress was worse than ever?because this time, the finalist was her daughter Kiran. Roused by her sister-in-law at 5 a.m. on Oct. 11, Anita turned on the television to see that Kiran, at age 35, had become the youngest woman ever to win the Booker. "I wanted it so much...
...markets, that’s a unique combination to find,” he said. HBR was founded in 1922 and—with its international editions—reaches nearly half a million readers worldwide, according to its publisher. Twice in the last three years, HBR was a finalist for the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. The India Today Group is the country’s largest magazine publisher, with licenses for such magazines as Time, Fortune, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Scientific American, and Reader’s Digest...
Yau’s challenge to The New Yorker is particularly bold because of Nasar’s international acclaim—she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her 1998 book “A Beautiful Mind,” which later became an Oscar-winning film...
...editing error, the print and original online versions of the Sept. 20 article, "Prof Accuses New Yorker of Defamation," incorrectly stated that Columbia journalism professor Sylvia Nasar has won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1998 book "A Beautiful Mind." In fact, Nasar was a finalist for the award...
...Edwards published a short story collection, Secrets of the Fire King, in 1997 (it was a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway prize) and sold The Memory Keeper's Daughter in 2003. It was a mild success in hardcover - it sold well for literary fiction - but nothing like the phenomenon it's become in paperback. "I've been writing seriously for 20-plus years, and getting a certain level of critical acclaim," she says. "I haven't felt like I've been writing in obscurity, let's say that. I felt like I've had an audience for my work...