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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 and/or Ireland.
Get ready for the Booker Prize 2024. The longlist for this year’s prize will be announced on Tuesday, 30 July, followed by the shortlist on Monday, 16 September and the winner on Tuesday, 12 November. Find out more about the prize and this year’s judges here.
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 .
With thousands of novels published each year, the Booker Prize has become a trusted kitemark of quality fiction, pointing readers towards the best of the best. The winner and the shortlisted authors are guaranteed a global readership and a life-changing increase in book sales.
Nov 16, 2022 · From Margaret Atwood to Kazuo Ishiguro, the Booker Prize has been celebrating and rewarding the best writers of long-form fiction in the English language since 1969. Here is a definitive list of the winning, shortlisted and longlisted authors alongside their novels, since the prize’s inception
Jul 1, 2024 · Booker Prize, prestigious British award given annually to a full-length novel in English. Booker McConnell, a multinational company, established the Booker Prize in 1968 to provide a counterpart to the Prix Goncourt in France.
Salman Rushdie has been nominated for the Booker Prize seven times, more than any other writer. He won the prize in 1981 for Midnight’s Children. Margaret Atwood, J.M. Coetzee, Iris Murdoch and Ian McEwan have each been nominated for the Booker Prize six times.
Since 1969, the Booker Prizes have celebrated and championed great fiction. Over half a century of the collected wisdom and creativity of contemporary fiction’s brightest minds has produced an absorbing history of our times. Explore the stories behind each of the prize-winning years below.
Nov 26, 2023 · The Booker Prize is awarded to the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland, in the opinion of the judges. Lynch won with his book ‘Prophet Song’, a dystopian vision of Ireland in the grips of totalitarianism.
Nov 28, 2023 · This year's Booker Prize was won by Irish author Paul Lynch for Prophet Song, a dystopian vision of Ireland in the grips of totalitarianism. Find out more about it and the other five nominees...
