BOOKER
PRIZE - AWARDS
News:
Booker Prize 2023:
Ireland's Paul Lynch wins with Prophet Song
What's
in the news?
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Irish author Paul Lynch wins the 2023
Booker Prize for his novel ‘Prophet Song'.
Key
takeaways:
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary
award in the English-speaking world.
Booker
Prize:
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The Booker
Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and the Man Booker Prize, is a literary
prize.
Objective:
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To promote the finest in fiction by
rewarding the best novel of the year written
in English.
Eligibility:
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The Booker Prize awards any novel
originally written in English and published
in the UK and Ireland in the year of the prize, regardless of the nationality of their author.
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The novel must be an original work in English (not a translation).
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It must be published by a registered UK or Irish imprint; self-published novels
are not eligible.
Prize
Money:
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The winner receives £50,000 as well as the
£2,500 awarded to each of the shortlisted authors. In this case, thanks to the
award being shared, the prize money would be split between the two winners.
Organizations
involved:
1.
Man Group:
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Man Group is an active investment
management firm founded in 1783.
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It has sponsored the Man Booker Prize
since 2002
2.
The Booker Prize Foundation:
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It is a registered charity established in
2002.
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Since then it has been responsible for the
award of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and for the Man Booker International
Prize since its inauguration in 2005.