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| The Booker Prize | |
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| Awarded for | Best work of sustained fiction of the year, written in English and published in the UK or Ireland |
| Location | Somerset House, Strand, London, England |
| Country | United Kingdom  |
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| Reward(s) | £50,000 |
| First awarded | 1969 |
| Website | www |
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. The winner of the Booker Prize receives £50,000, as well as international publicity that usually leads to a significant sales boost.[1] When the prize was created, only novels written by Commonwealth, Irish, and South African (and later Zimbabwean) citizens were eligible to receive the prize; in 2014, eligibility was widened to any English-language novel—a change that proved controversial.[2][3]
A five-person panel consisting of authors, publishers and journalists, as well as politicians, actors, artists and musicians,[4] is appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation each year to choose the winning book.[5][6] As of 2015, the chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation is Gaby Wood.[7][8][9]
A high-profile literary award in British culture, the Booker Prize is greeted with anticipation and fanfare around the world.[10] Literary critics have noted that it is a mark of distinction for authors to be selected for inclusion in the shortlist or to be nominated for the "longlist".[1]
A sister prize, the International Booker Prize, is awarded for a work of fiction translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. Unlike the Booker Prize, short story collections are eligible for the International Booker Prize. The £50,000 prize money is split evenly between the author and translator of the winning novel.[11]
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- ^ "The Booker Prize 2024". The Booker Prizes. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
- ^ "The Booker Prize | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ "A glimpse behind the scenes: The Booker at 50 | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ Gaby Wood at The Booker Prizes.
- ^ Flood, Alison (30 April 2015). "Gaby Wood, head of books at Daily Telegraph, appointed as new literary director of Booker prize foundation". The Guardian.
- ^ Jennifer (20 April 2015), "Booker Prize Foundation Hints at New Direction with Appointment of Gaby Wood as Literary Director", Books Live, Sunday Times (South Africa).
- ^ Hoover, Bob (10 February 2008). "'Gathering' storm clears for prize winner Enright". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 10 February 2008.
In America, literary prizes are greeted with the same enthusiasm as a low Steelers draft choice. Not so in the British Isles, where the $98,000 Man Booker Fiction Prize can even push Amy Winehouse off the front page – at least for a day. The atmosphere around the award approaches sports-championship proportions, with London bookies posting the ever-changing odds on the nominees. Then, in October when the winner is announced live on the BBC TV evening news, somebody always gets ticked off.
- ^ "The Booker Prizes". Booker Prize Foundation.
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