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A Russian version of the Booker Prize was created in 1992 called the Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize, also known as the Russian Booker Prize. In 2007, Man Group plc established the Man Asian Literary Prize , an annual literary award given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published ...
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work ...
In 1970, she became the first woman to win the Booker Prize (the second year of the prize's existence), for her novel The Elected Member. [4] As of 2024, Rubens is still the only Welsh author to have won the Booker Prize. [5] In June 2024 a Purple Plaque was installed on the house that was her family's home in Roath. [6]
John Peter Berger (/ ˈ b ɜːr dʒ ər / BUR-jər; 5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet.His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to the BBC series of the same name, was influential.
International Booker Prize David Diop (born 24 February 1966) is a French novelist and academic, who specializes in 18th-century French and Francophone African literature. His research, at the University of Pau in south-west France, focuses on representations of Africa in 18th-century accounts and images by travellers. [ 1 ]
The Booker Prize is a literary award given for the best English novel of the year. The 2022 award was announced on 17 October 2022, during a ceremony hosted by Sophie Duker at the Roundhouse in London.
Dame Penelope Margaret Lively DBE FRSL (née Low; born 17 March 1933) [2] is a British writer of fiction for both children and adults. Lively has won both the Booker Prize (Moon Tiger, 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books (The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, 1973).
This category contains authors who have been awarded the Booker Prize for their fiction. See also Category:Booker Prize–winning works for the novels. Pages in category "Booker Prize winners"