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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 ".
Shehan Karunatilaka, winner of the 2022 Booker Prize. 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.
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.
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 ...
Among the fiction authors longlisted for a 2022 National Book Award are Tess Gunty, Jonathan Escofferey and Jamil Jan Kochai. Skip to main content. News. 24/7 help. For premium support please call
Many female novelists have been honoured with damehood.
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 inaugural Man Booker International Prize was judged by John Carey (Chair), Alberto Manguel and Azar Nafisi. [30] The nominees were announced on 2 June 2005 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. [3] Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare was named the inaugural International Prize winner in 2005. [30]