The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, popularly known as the Booker Prize, is a literary award given every year for the best original novel, written in the English language. Instituted in 1968, it is the highest literary award of the world, set up by the Booker Company and the British Publishers Association. It was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize. In 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, and thus, the name was changed to Man Booker Prize.
» P.H. Newby was the first winner of Booker Prize in 1969 for Something to Answer For.
» Yann Martel was the first winner of Man Booker Prize for Life of Pi in 2002, as Booker Prize was renamed Man Booker Prize in the same year.
» Hilary Mantel is the first woman and the first Briton to win the Man Booker Prize twice. J.M. Coetzee was the first person to win the Man Booker Prize twice.
» Eleanor Catton, who won the Man Booker Prize in 2013 is the youngest ever winner of the prize (28 years) and with the longest ever winning novel (832 pages).
This award was instituted in the year 2004. It recognizes the writer for his or her work in fiction, and unlike Man Booker Prize, it is not given for a specific work. This award is given every two years.
| Year | Author | Name of the Work |
| 2008 | Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger |
| 2006 | Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss |
| 1997 | Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things |
| 1981 | Salman Rushdie | Midnight’s Children |