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In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, for "The Best of the Booker".
The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
Books that have been awarded the Booker Prize for fiction. See also Category:Booker Prize winners for the authors. Pages in category "Booker Prize–winning works"
The Booker Prize 2022 longlist features the oldest and youngest authors ever to be nominated for the prestigious literary award. British author Alan Garner, who will celebrate his 88th birthday on ...
The Man Booker dozen of 13 books was announced on 27 July, narrowed down to a shortlist of six titles on 13 September. [2] Paul Beatty was awarded the 2016 Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout , receiving 50,000 pounds ($61,000), and becoming the first American author to be awarded the prize.
0–9. 2006 Man Booker Prize; 2007 Man Booker Prize; 2008 Man Booker Prize; 2009 Man Booker Prize; 2010 Man Booker Prize; 2011 Man Booker Prize; 2012 Man Booker Prize
General fiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category that has been continuous since 1950, with multiple awards for a few years beginning 1980. From 1935 to 1941, there were six annual awards for novels or general fiction and the "Bookseller Discovery", the "Most Original Book"; both awards were sometimes given to a novel.
The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize) is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom. The introduction of the International Prize to complement the Man Booker Prize , as the Booker Prize was then known, was announced in June 2004. [ 1 ]