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The 'Man Booker Prize for Fiction', also known in short as the 'Booker Prize', is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland.
The winner of the Booker Prize will generally be assured of international renown and success. It is also a mark of distinction for authors to be nominated for the Booker longlist or selected for inclusion in the shortlist. 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 the first 25 years of its existence.
For a complete list of winning and shortlisted authors, see List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction.

Contents

History

Judging

Booker Prize winners

Booker facts & statistics

Related awards

See also

External links

History

The prize was originally known as the 'Booker-McConnell Prize' after the company Booker-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968, and became commonly known as the "Booker Prize" or simply "the Booker". When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, which opted to retain "Booker" as part of the official title of the prize. The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £21,000, and was subsequently raised to £50,000 in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Man Group.

Judging

The selection process for the winner of the prize commences with the formation of an advisory committee which includes an author, two publishers, a literary agent, a bookseller, a librarian, and a chairperson appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation. The advisory committee then selects the judging panel, the membership of which changes each year, although on rare occasions a judge may be selected a second time.
To maintain the consistent excellence of the prize, judges are selected from amongst leading literary critics, writers, academics and notable public figures.

Booker Prize winners

Year	Author	Country	Title
1969	P H Newby		''Something to Answer For''
1970	Bernice Rubens		''The Elected Member''
1971	V S Naipaul	/	''In a Free State''
1972	John Berger		''G''
1973	J G Farrell		''The Siege of Krishnapur''
1974	Nadine Gordimer Stanley Middleton		''The Conservationist Holiday''
1975	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	/	''Heat and Dust''
1976	David Storey		''Saville''
1977	Paul Scott		''Staying On''
1978	Iris Murdoch		''The Sea, the Sea''
1979	Penelope Fitzgerald		''Offshore''
1980	William Golding		''Rites of Passage''
1981	Salman Rushdie		''Midnight's Children''
1982	Thomas Keneally		''Schindler's Ark''
1983	J M Coetzee	/	''Life & Times of Michael K''
1984	Anita Brookner		''Hotel du Lac''
1985	Keri Hulme		''The Bone People''
1986	Kingsley Amis		''The Old Devils''
1987	Penelope Lively		''Moon Tiger''
1988	Peter Carey		''Oscar and Lucinda''
1989	Kazuo Ishiguro	/	''The Remains of the Day''
1990	A S Byatt		''
1991	Ben Okri		''The Famished Road''
1992	Michael Ondaatje Barry Unsworth	/	''The English Patient Sacred Hunger''
1993	Roddy Doyle		''Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha''
1994	James Kelman		''How Late It Was, How Late''
1995	Pat Barker		''The Ghost Road''
1996	Graham Swift		''Last Orders''
1997	Arundhati Roy		''The God of Small Things''
1998	Ian McEwan		''Amsterdam''
1999	J M Coetzee	/	''Disgrace''
2000	Margaret Atwood		''The Blind Assassin''
2001	Peter Carey		''True History of the Kelly Gang''
2002	Yann Martel		''Life of Pi''
2003	DBC Pierre	/	''Vernon God Little''
2004	Alan Hollinghurst		''The Line of Beauty''
2005	John Banville		''The Sea''
2006	Kiran Desai		''The Inheritance of Loss''

Booker facts & statistics

★ Each publisher's imprint may submit two titles. In addition, previous winners of the Prize and those who have been shortlisted in the previous ten years are automatically considered. Books may also be 'called in': publishers can make written representations to the judges to consider titles in addition to those already entered. In the twenty-first century the average number of books considered by the judges has been approximately 130.

★ The list of books making the longlist was first released in 2001. In 2003 there were 23 books on the longlist, in 2002 there were 20 and in 2001 there were 24.

★ For the first 35 years of the Booker there were only five years when fewer than six books were on the shortlist, and two years (1980 and 1981) when there were seven on the shortlist.

★ As of (2003):

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★ Over the first 35 years there were a total of 201 novels from 134 authors on the shortlists.

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★ Of the 97 novelists nominated once, there were 13 winners and three co-winners.

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★ Of the 19 novelists nominated twice, there were seven winners and one two-time winner (J. M. Coetzee).

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★ Of the ten novelists nominated three times, there were four winners, one co-winner and one two-time winner (Peter Carey).

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★ Of the six four-time nominees, all but William Trevor have won once. The other four-time nominees are Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Keneally and Penelope Fitzgerald.

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★ There have only been two five-time nominees, Margaret Atwood (first nominated in 1986 and won in 2000) and Beryl Bainbridge (nominated twice in the 1970s and three times in the 1990s, but she has never won).

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★ There has been only one six-time nominee, Iris Murdoch, who won on her fourth nomination in 1978 and was nominated twice more in the 1980s.

Related awards

A separate prize for which any living author in the world may qualify, the Man Booker International Prize, was inaugurated in 2005 and awarded biannually. A Russian version of the Booker Prize was created in 1992.

See also

★ List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction

★ The Commonwealth Writers Prize

★ The National Book Award

★ The Prix Goncourt

★ The Whitbread Book Awards

★ The Governor General's Award

★ The Giller Prize

★ The Miles Franklin Award

★ List of British literary awards

★ List of literary awards

External links

★ The official website of the Man Booker Prize

★ The most honored Booker shortlisted books