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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 ...
Three previous judges of the award, Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb, met and chose Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, the 1981 winner, as "the best novel out of all the winners". [112] In 2006, the Man Booker Prize set up a "Best of Beryl" prize, for the author Beryl Bainbridge, who had been nominated five times and yet ...
She was previously, at the age of 27, the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. [7] At 832 pages, The Luminaries is also the longest work to win the prize in its 45-year history. [6] Catton is the second writer from New Zealand to win the prize, the first being Keri Hulme in 1985 with The Bone People. [6]
The 2018 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 16 October 2018. [1] The Man Booker dozen of 13 books was announced on 24 July, and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 20 September. The longlist included Sabrina by Nick Drnaso, the first in Booker Prize history to nominate a graphic novel.
The 2015 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 13 October 2015. [1] A longlist of thirteen titles was announced on 29 July, narrowed down to a shortlist of six titles on 15 September. [ 2 ]
The 2014 Man Booker Prize for fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 14 October 2014. Until 2014, only novels written in English and from authors in the Commonwealth, including the UK, the Republic of Ireland and Zimbabwe were eligible for consideration; however from 2014 rules were changed to extend eligibility to any novel written in English. [1]
The 2016 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 25 October 2016. [1] 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 ...
The Prize – which was chosen from 158 novels published in the UK or Ireland between 1 October 2020 and 30 September 2021 [5] – was awarded to Damon Galgut for his novel, The Promise, receiving £50,000. Shortlisted twice before (in 2003 and 2010), [5] Galgut is the third South African to win the prize, after J. M. Coetzee and Nadine ...