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Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize 2015 logo.png
Awarded for Best original novel, written in the English language, and published in the UK
Location
Guildhall, London, England
Presented by Man Group
First awarded 1969; 50 years ago (1969) (as Booker–McConnell Prize)
Website www.themanbookerprize.com

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.[1] From its inception, only novels written by Commonwealth, Irish, and South African (and later Zimbabwean) citizens were eligible to receive the prize; in 2014 it was widened to any English-language novel—a change which proved controversial.[2][3]


A high-profile literary award in British culture, the Booker Prize is greeted with anticipation and fanfare.[4] It is also a mark of distinction for authors to be selected for inclusion in the shortlist or even to be nominated for the "longlist".




Contents






  • 1 History and administration


  • 2 Judging


  • 3 Winners


  • 4 Special awards


  • 5 Facts and statistics


  • 6 Related awards


  • 7 See also


  • 8 References


  • 9 Further reading


  • 10 External links





History and administration


The prize was originally known as the Booker–McConnell Prize, after the company Booker, McConnell Ltd began sponsoring the event in 1969;[5] it 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 foundation is an independent registered charity funded by the entire profits of Booker Prize Trading Ltd, of which it is the sole shareholder.[6] 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, making it one of the world's richest literary prizes.


In 1970, Bernice Rubens became the first woman to win the Booker Prize, for The Elected Member.[7] The rules of the Booker changed in 1971; previously, it had been awarded retrospectively to books published prior to the year in which the award was given. In 1971 the year of eligibility was changed to the same as the year of the award; in effect, this meant that books published in 1970 were not considered for the Booker in either year. The Booker Prize Foundation announced in January 2010 the creation of a special award called the "Lost Man Booker Prize," with the winner chosen from a longlist of 22 novels published in 1970.[8]


Alice Munro's The Beggar Maid was shortlisted in 1980, and remains the only short story collection to be shortlisted.[9]


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There is a well-established London literary community. Rushdie doesn't get shortlisted now because he has attacked that community. That is not a good game plan if you want to win the Booker. Norman Mailer has found the same thing in the US – you have to "be a citizen" if you want to win prizes. The real scandal is that [Martin] Amis has never won the prize. In fact, he has only been shortlisted once and that was for Time's Arrow, which was not one of his strongest books. That really is suspicious. He pissed people off with Dead Babies and that gets lodged in the culture. There is also the feeling that he has always looked towards America.[10]


In 1972, the winning writer John Berger, known for his Marxist worldview, protested during his acceptance speech against Booker McConnell. He blamed Booker's 130 years of sugar production in the Caribbean for the region's modern poverty.[11][12] Berger donated half of his £5,000 prize to the British Black Panther movement, because they had a socialist and revolutionary perspective in agreement with his own.[5][11][13]


In 1980, Anthony Burgess, writer of Earthly Powers, refused to attend the ceremony unless it was confirmed to him in advance whether he had won.[5] His was one of two books considered likely to win, the other being Rites of Passage by William Golding. The judges decided only 30 minutes before the ceremony, giving the prize to Golding. Both novels had been seen as favourites to win leading up to the prize, and the dramatic "literary battle" between two senior writers made front page news.[5][14]


In 1981, nominee John Banville wrote a letter to The Guardian requesting that the prize be given to him so that he could use the money to buy every copy of the longlisted books in Ireland and donate them to libraries, "thus ensuring that the books not only are bought but also read — surely a unique occurrence."[5][15]


Judging for the 1983 award produced a draw between J. M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K and Salman Rushdie's Shame, leaving chair of judges Fay Weldon to choose between the two. According to Stephen Moss in The Guardian, "Her arm was bent and she chose Rushdie" only to change her mind as the result was being phoned through.[10]


In 1993, two of the judges threatened to walk out when Trainspotting appeared on the longlist; Irvine Welsh's novel was pulled from the shortlist to satisfy them. The novel would later receive critical acclaim, and is now considered Welsh's masterpiece.[16]


The choice of James Kelman's book How Late It Was, How Late as 1994 Booker Prize winner proved to be one of the most controversial in the award's history.[17]Rabbi Julia Neuberger, one of the judges, declared it "a disgrace" and left the event, later deeming the book to be "crap"; WHSmith's marketing manager called the award "an embarrassment to the whole book trade"; Waterstone's in Glasgow sold a mere 13 copies Kelman's "Mogadon" the following week.[18] In 1994, Guardian literary editor Richard Gott, citing the lack of objective criteria and the exclusion of American authors, described the prize as "a significant and dangerous iceberg in the sea of British culture that serves as a symbol of its current malaise."[5][19]


In 1997, the decision to award Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things proved controversial. Carmen Callil, chair of the previous year's Booker judges, called it an "execrable" book and said on television that it shouldn't even have been on the shortlist. Booker Prize chairman Martyn Goff said Roy won because nobody objected, following the rejection by the judges of Bernard MacLaverty's shortlisted book due to their dismissal of him as "a wonderful short-story writer and that Grace Notes was three short stories strung together."[20]


Before 2001, each year's longlist of nominees was not publicly revealed.[21]


In 2001, A. L. Kennedy, who was a judge in 1996, called the prize "a pile of crooked nonsense" with the winner determined by "who knows who, who's sleeping with who, who's selling drugs to who, who's married to who, whose turn it is".[10]


The Booker Prize created a permanent home for the archives from 1968 to present at Oxford Brookes University Library. The Archive, which encompasses the administrative history of the Prize from 1968 to date, collects together a diverse range of material, including correspondence, publicity material, copies of both the Longlists and the Shortlists, minutes of meetings, photographs and material relating to the awards dinner (letters of invitation, guest lists, seating plans). Embargoes of ten or twenty years apply to certain categories of material; examples include all material relating to the judging process and the Longlist prior to 2002.[22]


Between 2005 and 2008, the Booker Prize alternated between writers from Ireland and India. "Outsider" John Banville began this trend in 2005 when his novel The Sea was selected as a surprise winner:[23] Boyd Tonkin, literary editor of The Independent, famously condemned it as "possibly the most perverse decision in the history of the award" and rival novelist Tibor Fischer poured scorn on Banville's victory.[24]Kiran Desai of India won in 2006. Anne Enright's 2007 victory came about due to a jury badly split over Ian McEwan's novel On Chesil Beach. The following year it was India's turn again, with Aravind Adiga narrowly defeating Enright's fellow Irishman Sebastian Barry.[25]


Historically, the winner of the Man Booker Prize had been required to be a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Republic of Ireland, or Zimbabwe. It was announced on 18 September 2013 that future Man Booker Prize awards would consider authors from anywhere in the world, so long as their work was in English and published in the UK.[26] This change proved controversial in literary circles. Former winner A. S. Byatt and former judge John Mullan said the prize risked diluting its identity, whereas former judge A. L. Kennedy welcomed the change.[3][27] Following this expansion, the first winner not from the Commonwealth, Ireland, or Zimbabwe was American Paul Beatty in 2016. Another American, George Saunders, won the following year.[28] In 2018, publishers sought to reverse the change, arguing that the inclusion of American writers would lead to homogenisation, reducing diversity and opportunities everywhere, including in America, to learn about "great books that haven't already been widely heralded."[29]


Man Group announced in early 2019 that the year's prize will be the last of 18 under their sponsorship, and it was reported that the Booker Prize Foundation were in talks with a new sponsor for 2020.[30]



Judging


The selection process for the winner of the prize commences with the formation of an advisory committee, which includes a writer, 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. Judges are selected from amongst leading literary critics, writers, academics and leading public figures.


The Booker judging process and the very concept of a "best book" being chosen by a small number of literary insiders is controversial for many. The Guardian introduced the "Not the Booker Prize" voted for by readers partly as a reaction to this.[31]
Author Amit Chaudhuri wrote "The idea that a “book of the year” can be assessed annually by a bunch of people – judges who have to read almost a book a day – is absurd, as is the idea that this is any way of honouring a writer".[32]


The winner is usually announced at a ceremony in London's Guildhall, usually in early October.



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Year
Author
Title
Genre(s)
Country
1969

P. H. Newby[33]

Something to Answer For
Novel
United Kingdom
1970

Bernice Rubens[34]

The Elected Member
Novel
United Kingdom
1970
(retrospective award[a])

J. G. Farrell

Troubles
Novel
United Kingdom
Ireland
1971

V. S. Naipaul[35]

In a Free State
Novel
United Kingdom
Trinidad and Tobago
1972

John Berger[36]

G.

Experimental novel
United Kingdom
1973

J. G. Farrell[37]

The Siege of Krishnapur
Novel
United Kingdom
Ireland
1974

Nadine Gordimer[38]

The Conservationist
Novel
South Africa

Stanley Middleton[39]

Holiday
Novel
United Kingdom
1975

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Heat and Dust
Historical novel
United Kingdom
Germany
1976

David Storey[40]

Saville
Novel
United Kingdom
1977

Paul Scott[41]

Staying On
Novel
United Kingdom
1978

Iris Murdoch[42]

The Sea, the Sea

Philosophical novel
Ireland
United Kingdom
1979

Penelope Fitzgerald[43]

Offshore
Novel
United Kingdom
1980

William Golding[44]

Rites of Passage
Novel
United Kingdom
1981

Salman Rushdie[45]

Midnight's Children

Magic realism
United Kingdom
1982

Thomas Keneally[46]

Schindler's Ark

Biographical novel
Australia
1983

J. M. Coetzee[47]

Life & Times of Michael K
Novel
South Africa
1984

Anita Brookner[48]

Hotel du Lac
Novel
United Kingdom
1985

Keri Hulme[49]

The Bone People

Mystery novel
New Zealand
1986

Kingsley Amis[50]

The Old Devils

Comic novel
United Kingdom
1987

Penelope Lively[51]

Moon Tiger
Novel
United Kingdom
1988

Peter Carey[52]

Oscar and Lucinda
Historical novel
Australia
1989

Kazuo Ishiguro[53]

The Remains of the Day
Historical novel
United Kingdom
1990

A. S. Byatt

Possession
Historical novel
United Kingdom
1991

Ben Okri[54]

The Famished Road
Magic realism
Nigeria
1992

Michael Ondaatje[55]

The English Patient

Historiographic metafiction
Canada

Barry Unsworth[56]

Sacred Hunger
Historical novel
United Kingdom
1993

Roddy Doyle

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Novel
Ireland
1994

James Kelman[57]

How Late It Was, How Late

Stream of consciousness
United Kingdom
1995

Pat Barker[58]

The Ghost Road

War novel
United Kingdom
1996

Graham Swift[59]

Last Orders
Novel
United Kingdom
1997

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things
Novel
India
1998

Ian McEwan[60]

Amsterdam
Novel
United Kingdom
1999

J. M. Coetzee[61]

Disgrace
Novel
South Africa
2000

Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin
Historical novel
Canada
2001

Peter Carey

True History of the Kelly Gang
Historical novel
Australia
2002

Yann Martel

Life of Pi

Fantasy and adventure novel
Canada
2003

DBC Pierre

Vernon God Little

Black comedy
Australia
2004

Alan Hollinghurst

The Line of Beauty
Historical novel
United Kingdom
2005

John Banville

The Sea
Novel
Ireland
2006

Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss
Novel
India
2007

Anne Enright

The Gathering
Novel
Ireland
2008

Aravind Adiga[62]

The White Tiger
Novel
India
2009

Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall
Historical novel
United Kingdom
2010

Howard Jacobson

The Finkler Question

Comic novel
United Kingdom
2011

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending
Novel
United Kingdom

2012

Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies
Historical novel
United Kingdom

2013

Eleanor Catton

The Luminaries
Historical novel
New Zealand

2014

Richard Flanagan

The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Historical novel
Australia

2015

Marlon James

A Brief History of Seven Killings
Historical/experimental novel
Jamaica

2016

Paul Beatty

The Sellout
Satirical novel
United States of America

2017

George Saunders

Lincoln in the Bardo
Historical/experimental novel
United States of America

2018

Anna Burns

Milkman
Novel
United Kingdom
Northern Ireland




  1. ^ In 1971, the nature of the Prize was changed so that it was awarded to novels published in that year instead of in the previous year; therefore, no novel published in 1970 could win the Booker Prize. This was rectified in 2010 by the awarding of the "Lost Man Booker Prize" to J. G. Farrell's Troubles.[63]




Special awards


In 1993, to mark the prize's 25th anniversary, a "Booker of Bookers" Prize was given. Three previous judges of the award, Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb, met and chose Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, the 1981 winner, as "the best novel out of all the winners."[64]


In 2006, the Man Booker Prize set up a 'Best of Beryl' prize, for the author Beryl Bainbridge, who has been nominated five times and yet has failed to win once. The prize is said to count as a Booker Prize. The nominees were An Awfully Big Adventure, Every Man for Himself, The Bottle Factory Outing, The Dressmaker and Master Georgie, which won.


Similarly, The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to celebrate the prize's 40th anniversary. A shortlist of six winners was chosen and the decision was left to a public vote; the winner was again Midnight's Children.[65][66]


In 2018, to celebrate the 50 anniversary, the Golden Man Booker was awarded. One book from each decade was selected by a panel of judges: Naipaul's In a Free State (the 1971 winner), Lively's Moon Tiger (1987), Ondaatje's The English Patient (1992), Mantel's Wolf Hall and Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo. The winner, by popular vote, was The English Patient.[67]



Facts and 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 five 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 21st century the average number of books considered by the judges has been approximately 130.[citation needed]



Related awards


A separate prize for which any living writer in the world may qualify, the Man Booker International Prize was inaugurated in 2005. Until 2015, it was 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. In 2016, the award was significantly reconfigured, and is now given annually to a single book in English translation, with a £50,000 prize for the winning title, shared equally between author and translator.


A Russian version of the Booker Prize was created in 1992 called the Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize, also known as the Russian Booker Prize. In 2007, Man Group plc established the Man Asian Literary Prize, an annual literary award given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published in the previous calendar year.


As part of The Times' Literature Festival in Cheltenham, a Booker event is held on the last Saturday of the festival. Four guest speakers/judges debate a shortlist of four books from a given year from before the introduction of the Booker prize, and a winner is chosen. Unlike the real Man Booker (1969 through 2014), writers from outside the Commonwealth are also considered. In 2008, the winner for 1948 was Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country, beating Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter and Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One. In 2015, the winner for 1915 was Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, beating The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan), Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham), Psmith, Journalist (P. G. Wodehouse) and The Voyage Out (Virginia Woolf).[68]



See also




  • List of British literary awards

  • List of literary awards

  • Commonwealth Writers Prize

  • Grand Prix of Literary Associations

  • Costa Book Awards

  • Prix Goncourt

  • Governor General's Awards

  • Scotiabank Giller Prize

  • Miles Franklin Award

  • Russian Booker Prize

  • Samuel Johnson Prize (non-fiction)

  • German Book Prize (Deutscher Buchpreis)



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Further reading



  • Lee, Hermione (1981). "The Booker Prize: Matters of judgment". Times Literary Supplement, reprinted 22 October 2008.


External links








  • Official website Edit this at Wikidata


  • The Booker Prize Archive at Oxford Brookes University

  • A primer on the Man Booker Prize and critical review of literature

  • Man Booker Prize 2013 Longlist announced 23 July 2013, updated with Shortlist 10 September 2013









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