Global Report - 16-October-2008

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in the award's 40-year history, Ben Okri was 32 when he won for The Famished Road in 1991. He is also only the third winner to triumph with a debut novel. The first debut novelist to win the Booker was Arundhati Roy. Aravind Adiga joins VS Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai in the Booker hall of fame. OFW beheaded in Jeddah The beheading by sword of an Overseas Filipino Worker convicted of killing a Saudi national is utterly horrendous. This despite appeals made by ...