MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

MAN BOOKER PRIZE

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Republic of Ireland, or Zimbabwe. Beginning in 2014, it will consider authors from anywhere in the world, as long as their work is in English and published in the UK.

The reward for winning the first Booker Prize, in 1968, was a trophy and a cheque for £5,000, and given to Newby for his novel “Something To Answer For”.   

The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language.

There have been two special awards celebrating the Booker's history. In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie (India) for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, "The Best of the Booker".

Hilary Mantel won Man’s Booker Prize in 2012 for her novel ‘Bring up the Bodies’, the sequel to ‘Wolf Hall’ which won the prize in 2009.

The 2013 winner, announced on 15 October, was The Luminaries by Canadian-born New Zealand author Eleanor Catton.

Booker Prize Winners (1981 – 2013)

Year                 Author                              Country                           Title

1981                 Salman Rushdie                 India                                Midnight's Children

1997                 Arundhati Roy                    India                                The God of Small Things

1998                 Ian McEwan                       United Kingdom               Amsterdam

1999                 J. M. Coetzee                    South Africa                     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

2007                 Anne Enright                      Ireland                             The Gathering

2008                 Aravind Adiga                    India                                The White Tiger

2009                 Hilary Mantel                      United Kingdom               Wolf Hall

2010                 Howard Jacobson              United Kingdom               The Finkler Question

2011                 Julian Barnes                     United Kingdom               The Sense of an Ending

2012                 Hilary Mantel                      United Kingdom               Bring up the Bodies           

2013                 Eleanor Catton                   Canadian born New Zealand              The Luminaries

MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

The Man Booker International Prize is an international literary award given every two years to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation.

The introduction of the International Prize was announced in June 2004. The award, which is sponsored by the Man Group, complements the Man Booker Prize and rewards one author's "continued creativity, development and overall contribution to fiction on the world stage." The Man Booker Prize is only open to writers from the Commonwealth, Ireland and Zimbabwe; the International Prize is open to all nationalities. The award is worth £50,000 and an author can only win once. The Man Booker International prize also allows for a separate award for translation. The winning author can choose a translator of their work into English to receive a prize sum of £15,000

Winners are

2005     Ismail Kadare                Albania             Albanian           Albanian literature

2007     Chinua Achebe              Nigeria              English             Nigerian literature

2009     Alice Munro                   Canada             English             Canadian literature

2011     Philip Roth                    United States    English             American literature

2013     Lydia Davis                   United States    English             American literature