Booker Prize

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The Booker Prize

• The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is the most important literary award in Britain.

• It has been awarded since 1969 by the Booker Prize Foundation which is mainly sponsored by The Man Group, a leading global provider of alternative investment products and solutions.

• It is awarded each year for the best novel in the English language by an author who must be citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, the Republic of Ireland or Zimbabwe, and who receives £50.000. Books must be a unified and substantial work, neither a book of short stories nor a novella is eligible.

• The longlist 2007 of 13 books, "The Man Booker Dozen" was chosen from 110 entries. Nicola Barker, Anne Enright, Moshin Hamid, Lloyd Jones, Ian McEwan and Indra Sinha were the six authors shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007.

• The award ceremony is broadcasted live on television.

• For it is very prestigious it is also a great promotion for the nominated novels, which guarantees an increase in book sales.

• Winners were:

2005: John Banville(Irl.): The Sea 2006: Kiran Desai (Ind.): The Inheritance of Loss 2007: Anne Enright(Irl.): The Gathering

• The judging procedure for the Booker Prize is rather complicated in order to guarantee the fairness and quality of the award. The first step is the formation of an advisory committee which consists of two publishers, a literary agent, a bookseller, a librarian and a chairperson, appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation. The advisory committee selects a judging panel for the current year. The judges are selected from amongst leading literary critics, writers, academics and so called “notable public figures”. These judges chose their favorite of a pool of nominated novels.

The Booker International Prize

• The Booker International Prize was introduced in 2005 and is to be awarded every two years hence.

• It is accessible to authors of any nationality for their complete works which must have been translated and published in English. The winner receives £60.000.

• Winners were: 2005: Ismail Kadare(Alb.) 2007: Chinua Achebe(Nig.)



Wikipedia.org: The Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize Homepage

The Booker International Prize


Agata Muni, Carsten Richter 19:34, 6 December 2007 (CET)