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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 ...
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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 ...
The judging panel for the 2025 Booker Prize has been announced, and one unlikely Hollywood A-Lister is taking part. As the Prize opens for submissions from publishers on Tuesday (10 December), the ...
Many female novelists have been honoured with damehood.
Sarah Jessica Parker has been appointed to the judging panel of prestigious U.K. literary award the Booker Prize. 1993 Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle will chair the panel, which this year is also ...
In the same year he was given an Atlantic Award in literature, and two years thence he received the Somerset Maugham Prize. [4] In 1947, John Lehmann published Newby's boys' adventure story "The Spirit of Jem" with 41-line drawings and a colour dust wrap by Keith Vaughan .
Evaristo was born in Eltham, south-east London, and christened Bernardine Anne Mobolaji Evaristo. [13] She was raised in Woolwich, the fourth of eight children born to an English mother, Jacqueline M. Brinkworth, of English, Irish and German heritage, [14] who was a schoolteacher, [15] and a Nigerian father, Julius Taiwo Bayomi Evaristo (1927–2001), known as Danny, born in British Cameroon ...