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. A literary award is an award presented to an author who has written a particularly lauded piece or body of work. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

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. A short list is a list of candidates for a job, prize, award, political position, etc. ... Ahmed Salman Rushdie KBE (Hindi: Urdu: سلمان رشدی; born 19 June 1947) is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. ... Midnights Children cover Midnights Children (ISBN 039451470X) is a 1980 novel by Salman Rushdie. ...

For a complete list of winning and shortlisted authors, see List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. ...

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. Booker-McConnell was the former sponsor of the Booker Prize for fiction established in 1968. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1968 Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Man Group plc (LSE: EMG) is one of the worlds largest futures contract brokers and a leading global provider of alternative investment products. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

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

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Farrell, and was published in 1973. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923) is a South African novelist and writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature and 1974 Booker Prize. ... Stanley Middleton (born August 1, 1919) is a British novelist. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_South_Africa. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... The Conservationist is a 1974 novel by 1991 Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (born May 7, 1927) is a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... Heat and Dust (1975) is a novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala which won the Booker Prize in 1975. ... Year 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... David Malcolm Storey (born 13 July 1933) is an English playwright, screenwriter and award winning novelist. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... Paul Mark Scott (25 March 1920 – 1 March 1978) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his monumental tetralogy the Raj Quartet. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Staying On is a novel by Paul Scott, which was published in 1977 and won the Booker Prize. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (July 15, 1919 – February 8, 1999) was an Irish-born British writer and philosopher, best known for her novels, which combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines, usually involving ethical or sexual themes. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... The Sea, the Sea is a novel by Iris Murdoch. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 - 28 April 2000) was an English poet, novelist and biographer. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Offshore (1979) is a novel by Penelope Fitzgerald. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ... Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1983), best known for his novel Lord of the Flies. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... To the Ends of the Earth is a trilogy of novels by William Golding, consisting of Rites of Passage (1980), Close Quarters (1987), and Fire Down Below (1989). ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Ahmed Salman Rushdie KBE (Hindi: Urdu: سلمان رشدی; born 19 June 1947) is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_India. ... Midnights Children cover Midnights Children (ISBN 039451470X) is a 1980 novel by Salman Rushdie. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally (born October 7, 1935) also Tom Keneally, is an Australian novelist. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Schindlers List is a 1993 movie based on the book Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keneally (the book was later renamed Schindlers List as well). ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... John Maxwell Coetzee (IPA pronunciation: ; born 9 February 1940), often called J.M. Coetzee, is a South African author (now living in Australia) and academic. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_South_Africa. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Life & Times of Michael K is a 1983 novel by J.M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2003. ... Year 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar). ... Anita Brookner (born July 16, 1928) is an English novelist and art historian born in London. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Hotel du Lac (ISBN 0679759328) is a Booker Prize winning novel (1984) by Anita Brookner. ... Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ... Keri Hulme is a New Zealand writer, best known for her debut (and to this point, only) novel, The bone people. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_New_Zealand. ... The Bone People is a 1984 novel by New Zealand author Keri Hulme. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... The Old Devils is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1986. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... Penelope Lively (born March 17, 1933) is a prolific, popular and critically acclaimed author of fiction for both children and adults. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Moon Tiger is an exceptional novel spanning the time pre, during and post World War One. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Peter Philip Carey (born May 7, 1943) is an Australian novelist. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey, which won the 1988 Booker Prize. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ Kazuo Ishiguro, originally 石黒一雄 Ishiguro Kazuo, born November 8, 1954) is a British author of Japanese origin. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... Dame Antonia Byatt, DBE (born August 24, 1936, Sheffield, England) has been hailed as one of the great postmodern novelists in Britain. ... 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This article is about the book. ... Sacred Hunger is a historical novel by Barry Unsworth first published in 1992. ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... Roddy Doyle (Irish: , born May 8, 1958 in Dublin) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Ireland. ... Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle and perhaps the most well-known book of the author. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar). ... James Kelman (born in Glasgow on June 9, 1946) is an influential writer of novels, short stories and plays. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... How late it was, how late is a 1994 stream of consciousness novel written by Scottish writer James Kelman. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Pat Barker (born May 8, 1943) is an English writer and historian. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... The Ghost Road is a novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1995 and winner of the Booker Prize. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Graham Colin Swift (born May 4, 1949) is a well-known British author. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Last Orders is a 2001 motion picture written and directed by Australian (Writer/Director/Producer) Fred Schepisi, and stars Michael Caine as Jack Dodd, Bob Hoskins as Ray, Ray Winstone as Vince Dodds, David Hemmings as Lenny and Tom Courtenay as Vic Tucker. ... Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ... Suzanna Arundhati Roy[1] (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, writer and activist. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_India. ... The God of Small Things (1997) is a semi-autobiographical, politically charged novel by Indian author Arundhati Roy. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... Ian McEwan CBE, (born June 21, 1948), is a British novelist (sometimes nicknamed Ian Macabre because of the nature of his early work). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... Amsterdam book cover Amsterdam (1998) is a novel by Ian McEwan, winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... John Maxwell Coetzee (IPA pronunciation: ; born 9 February 1940), often called J.M. Coetzee, is a South African author (now living in Australia) and academic. ... 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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):
  • Over the first 35 years there were a total of 201 novels from 134 authors on the shortlists.
  • Of the 97 novelists nominated once, there were 13 winners and three co-winners.
  • Of the 19 novelists nominated twice, there were seven winners and one two-time winner (J. M. Coetzee).
  • Of the ten novelists nominated three times, there were four winners, one co-winner and one two-time winner (Peter Carey).
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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.

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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. An author is any person(s) or entity(s) that originates and assumes responsibility for an expression or communication. ... The Man Booker International Prize is a biennial international literary award given to a living author of any nationality for fiction published in English or generally available in English translation. ... The Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize, sometimes known as the Russian Booker Prize, is a Russian literary award modelled after the Booker Prize and inaugurated in 1992. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...

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

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External links

• The official website of the Man Booker Prize
• The most honored Booker shortlisted books