Lydia Davis Lydia Davis is an American writer who was born in Massachusetts in 1947 and is now a professor of creative writing at the University at Albany, the capital of New York state. She won this year’s Man Booker International prize which is Worth £60,000, the prize is awarded every two years to a living …
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U R Ananthamurthy Which of your books would you recommend to a reader approaching your work for the first time? Samskara (Samskara: A Rite For A Dead Man) How has your nomination for the Man Booker International prize been received in your home country? That an Indian writer writing in one of the Indian languages, …
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I feel sorry for Kapil Sibal and company for their zero-loss theory, CAG Vinod Rai says. None of the 30 Comptroller & Auditor Generals of India before him had created the kind of waves as he did. Vinod Rai threw up gigantic figures of money allegedly stolen from government coffers. In full public glare, he exposed corruption …
