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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 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.
Possession: A Romance is a 1990 best-selling novel by English writer A. S. Byatt that won the 1990 Booker Prize for Fiction.The novel explores the postmodern concerns of similar novels, which are often categorised as historiographic metafiction, a genre that blends approaches from both historical fiction and metafiction.
This Strange Eventful History is a historical fiction novel by Claire Messud. It was published on May 14, 2024 to critical acclaim. It was published on May 14, 2024 to critical acclaim. The novel was longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize [ 1 ] and the 2024 Giller Prize .
Gaby Wood, the chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, said that the judging panel “wished their longlist could have been twice as long”, after finding “joy, entertainment, emotion ...
Small Things like These is a historical fiction novel by Claire Keegan, published on 30 November 2021 by Grove Press.In 2022, the book won the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, [1] and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize [2] and the Booker Prize. [3]
Unsworth did not start to write historical fiction until his sixth novel, Pascali's Island (1980), the first of his novels to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Pascali's Island is set on an unnamed Aegean island during the last years of the Ottoman Empire. Reflecting on this shift, Unsworth explained: "Nowadays I go to Britain relatively ...
It is a postcolonial, postmodern and magical realist story told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, set in the context of historical events. The style of preserving history with fictional accounts is self-reflexive. Midnight's Children sold over one million copies in the UK alone and won the Booker Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize ...