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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 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 prize money from that award would be folded into the Man Booker International Prize, which would henceforth act similarly to the Independent prize: awarding an annual book of fiction translated into English, with the £50,000 prize split between author and translator. [15]
Launched in 1969, the Booker Prize is the world’s most influential prize for a single work of fiction. Last year, the Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka won for his second novel , The Seven ...
German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday for “Kairos,” the story of a tangled love affair during the final years ...
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.
South African novelist Galgut, 57, won the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction with The Promise. First awarded in 1969, the Booker is open to writers of any nationality whose work is written in English ...
Paul Lynch, winner of the 2023 Booker Prize. The Booker Prize is an annual literary award given for the best English-language novel of the year published in either the United Kingdom or Ireland. [1] The 2023 winner was Paul Lynch's Prophet Song. The 2023 longlist was announced on 1 August. [2]