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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 ...
The 2011 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 18 October 2011. [1] The Man Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 26 July, [2] [3] and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 6 September. [4] The Man Booker Prize was awarded to Julian Barnes for The Sense of an Ending. [1] [5]
Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. He won the Man Booker Prize in 2011 with The Sense of an Ending, having been shortlisted three times previously with Flaubert's Parrot, England, England, and Arthur & George.
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 ...
He won the £50,000 award for The Promise. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Camões Prize: Manuel António Pina; Europe Theatre Prize: Peter Stein; European Book Prize: Maxim Leo, Red Love, and Anna Bikont, The Crime and the Silence; International Prize for Arabic Fiction: Mohammed Achaari, The Arch and the Butterfly, and Raja'a Alem, The Doves' Necklace; SAARC Literary Award: Ibrahim Waheed, Syed Akhtar Hussain Akhtar
The book was released in October 2011 in the United States, after its previously scheduled publication date for the United States was brought forward by three months by Random House's Knopf publishing group to capitalise on the shortlisting of the book as a candidate for the Booker prize. [6] Suzanne Dean designed the cover for The Sense of an ...
The 2011 prize was judged by Rick Gekoski (Chair), Carmen Callil (withdrew in protest over choice of winner) and Justin Cartwright. [36] The nominees for the fourth Man Booker International Prize were announced on 30 March 2011 at a ceremony in Sydney, Australia. [ 37 ]