No Indian won the Man Booker Prize in 2009. Instead, the winner was English novelist and short story writer Hilary Mary Mantel [b. July 6, 1952]. But a number of Indian wirters previously have been among the Prize's recipients. The last Indian author to win the prize was Aravind Adiga [b. October 23, 1974], in 2008.
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded for the best full-length novel in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations (formerly British Commonwealth), Ireland, or Zimbabwe.
Ismail Kadare
Half a Life was written by V.S. Naipaul, but he didn't actually win the 2001 Man Booker Prize for Half a Life; Half a Life was longlisted for the prize. Naipaul had previously been shortlisted for the 1979 Man Booker Prize for his A Bend in the River, and won the 1971 Man Booker Prize for his In a Free State. Naipaul was a contender for the Man Booker International Prize in 2009.
kiran desai
Man Booker International Prize was created in 2005.
Half a Life was written by V.S. Naipaul, but he didn't actually win the 2001 Man Booker Prize for Half a Life; Half a Life was longlisted for the prize. Naipaul had previously been shortlisted for the 1979 Man Booker Prize for his A Bend in the River, and won the 1971 Man Booker Prize for his In a Free State. Naipaul was a contender for the Man Booker International Prize in 2009.
The Booker Prize was a literary award given to authors from the UK and Commonwealth countries, while the Man Booker Prize was an international literary award that included authors from all over the world. In 2019, the Man Booker Prize was renamed the Booker Prize.
Half a Life was written by V.S. Naipaul, but he didn't actually win the 2001 Man Booker Prize for Half a Life; Half a Life was longlisted for the prize. Naipaul had previously been shortlisted for the 1979 Man Booker Prize for his A Bend in the River, and won the 1971 Man Booker Prize for his In a Free State. Naipaul was a contender for the Man Booker International Prize in 2009.
Lost Man Booker Prize was created in 1970.
Eleanor Catton won the 2013 Man Booker Prize for the novel The Luminaries.
ARVIND ADIGA got Booker prize for the book called " White Tigers"
Margaret Atwood won the 2000 Man Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin.
The winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize was Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending.