Man Booker Prize

Man Booker Prize

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.

Some Interesting Facts about 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).

Indian Winners of Man Booker Prize

Booker Prize Winners (1969-2022)