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Booker Winners Through the Years
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The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall won the Man Booker Prize today. The Daily Beast looks back at the past decade of honorees, from Yann Martel's Life of Pi to Aravind Adiga's White Tiger.
Nora Ephron's Must-Reads
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Nora Ephron is a journalist, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director. Her credits include Heartburn, When Harry Met Sally, and Sleepless in Seattle. She received three Oscar nominations for screenwriting. Her books include Crazy Salad, Scribble, Scribble and Heartburn. Her latest book, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, was a number one best seller. Her latest film is Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams.
The director of Julie & Julia recommends a few of her favorite books.
Aravind Adiga Responds to Our Readers
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The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
The author of The White Tiger and Between the Assassinations answers Daily Beast readers' questions about his books, life in India, and why he'll never adapt one of his works for the screen.
An Excerpt from Between the Assassinations
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Aravind Adiga is the bestselling author of The White Tiger, which won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
Before he wrote The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga wrote Between the Assassinations, a collection of short stories about life in the fictional city of Kittur. Read an excerpt from one of the stories.
My Wild Trip Home
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Aravind Adiga is the bestselling author of The White Tiger, which won the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
An essay from the author of Between the Assassinations on how he traveled from Brooklyn back to his hometown of Mangalore, and discovered an India he never knew existed.
Do Book Awards Really Matter?
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Sara Nelson is a critic for The Daily Beast and the former editor in chief of Publishers Weekly. She is the author of the bestselling So Many Books, So Little Time.
Is it better to get a Pulitzer or the Booker, and does a prize from Barnes & Noble mean more than a Nobel? Sara Nelson looks inside the winners' circle.
The Booker Prize's Passage to India
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Peter Stothard's latest book is On the Spartacus Road: A Spectacular Journey Through Ancient Italy. He is also the author of Thirty Days, a Downing Street diary of his time with British Prime Minister Tony Blair during the Iraq war.
Last night the honor went to a first-time Indian novelist, Aravind Adiga, for The White Tiger a murder story set among his country's very rich and very poor.
What Are We About to Pass?
10 Power Food Combos
Divya Gugnani is the CEO and founder of BehindtheBurner.com, an emerging culinary media brand that creates expert-based content about food, wine, mixology, and nutrition.
How Barack Beat Bibi
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
11 Astonishing Video Moments from Health Care's Big Day
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
The Road to Health-Care Reform: Five Milestones
Benjamin Sarlin is Washington correspondent for The Daily Beast. He previously covered New York City politics for The New York Sun and has worked for talkingpointsmemo.com.
The Week Ahead in Culture
Jaimie Etkin is an editorial assistant at The Daily Beast. She has also written for Us Weekly and Radar.
Max Read is a writer living and working in New York City.
