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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 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 19 November 2020. [1] The Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 27 July, [2] and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 15 September. [3] The Prize was awarded to Douglas Stuart for his debut novel, Shuggie Bain, receiving £50,000. [4] Stuart is the second Scottish author to win the ...
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 ...
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Baillie Gifford Prize: Booker Prize: Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain [246] Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year: A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in Eastern Indonesian Society by Gregory Forth. [247] Caine Prize for African Writing: Irenosen Okojie, "Grace Jones" [248] Camões Prize: Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e ...
[5] 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize. [6] [7] As of 2024, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French with 16 laureates and German with 14 laureates. France has the highest number of ...
[1] [2] Rijneveld won the 2020 International Booker Prize together with their translator Michele Hutchison for the debut novel The Discomfort of Evening. [3] Rijneveld is the first Dutch author to win the prize, [4] the first non-binary person to do so [5] and only the third Dutch author to be nominated.
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] Sponsored by the Man Group , from 2005 until 2015 the award was given every two years to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English ...