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Booker Prize

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Booker Prize an annual prize of £50,000 (originally £20,000 ) for a work of fiction by a living British, Irish, or Commonwealth writer. Great Britain's premier literary award, it has been underwritten since 1969 by the British food-distribution company Booker PLC, now part of The Big Food Group PLC. In 2002 the Man Group, a British hedge fund, became a co-sponsor of the award, which was officially renamed the Man Booker Prize. Recipients have included Nadine Gordimer , Iris Murdoch , Salman Rushdie , A. S. Byatt , and Peter Carey . In 2004 an additional award,... Read more
Booker Prize
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia in full (2002– ) Man Booker Prize Prestigious British award given ... to the French Prix Goncourt. The Booker Prize Foundation administers the prize ... Russian Novel Prize was introduced. Booker Prize Booker Prize Booker Prize Read more
Man Booker Prize
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition an annual prize of £50,000 (originally ... originally known as the Booker Prize and in 1969 was underwritten ... distribution company Booker PLC, now part of The ... Booker International Prize, was introduced. An award ... the Man Asian Literary Prize . Initiated by the Hong ... Read more

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Profile: Controversy over opening the Booker Prize to American authors
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR); 6/1/2002; SCOTT SIMON; 996 words ; ... vehemently denies that the Book Prize is being pressed into commercial ... I wouldn't be chairing the Booker Prize if I believed that the commercial ... global ambitions drove the prize. ULABY: Gardine says that the ... because it's publicity for the Booker, because it's publicity for ... exactly ... Read more
Books: A runaway juggernaut Emma Cook talks to Booker Prize survivors about the literary event nobody can dent
The Independent - London; 9/19/1999; Emma Cook t; 1110 words ; The Booker Prize shortlist will be announced on Tuesday ... Booker has had a tough financial year. The Booker Prize is a company asset and I have to ask ... initiatives including the launch of a junior Booker prize. There's always the danger that commercial ... Read more
Why can't judges pick books we want to read? As the Booker Prize short list is announced today, one author asks
Evening Standard - London; 9/16/2003; TIM LOTT; 1049 words ; ... to know, historically, about the Booker Prize. Question 1: What do these books ... of the authors? Thought not. The Booker prize has, for much of its history, been ... is presented to them to make the Booker a prize not only for a great book but for ... Read more
Cheltenham Festival: The literary lottery CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL: The Booker Prize is maddening and arbitrary but entirely necessary, says Peter Straus
The Independent - London; 10/15/1998; Peter Straus; 1229 words ; ... Carmen Callil, chair of the 1996 Booker Prize answered: "a) esteem b) money c ... shorthand for the effect of the Booker Prize itself. Indeed John Bayley, himself ... chair myself I don't see how the Booker Prize can ever get it right ... no novelist ... Read more
READERS BROUGHT TO BOOKER THE BOOKER PRIZE IS 40 YEARS OLD (SORT OF) AND THE PUBLIC IS BEING ASKED TO VOTE FOR THE GREATEST BOOK EVER TO WIN IT. ONE-TIME JUDGE ALAN TAYLOR ASSESSES THE SHORTLIST
The Sunday Herald; 6/15/2008; ALAN TAYLOR; 1165 words ; ... 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize. Or so we are led to believe ... PR company. In fact, the Booker was born in 1969, which ... peg. There have been 41 Booker winners, all of which are ... inaugural winner of the prize. I should emphasise at the ... Read more
Why can't judges pick books we want to read? As the Booker Prize short list is announced today, one author asks-.
The Evening Standard (London, England); 9/16/2003; 1051 words ; ... to know, historically, about the Booker Prize. Question 1: What do these books ... of the authors? Thought not. The Booker prize has, for much of its history, been ... is presented to them to make the Booker a prize not only for a great book but for ... Read more
Lord Booker and his prize: the plot thickens
The Independent - London; 7/25/1997; Miles Kington; 695 words ; ... because the BBC's coverage of the Booker Prize is not serious enough, and ... on the phone for him. Lord Booker was a proud man. He was proud ... thought he was Christopher Booker, ennobled. And he still burnt ... Jacobson had said about the Booker short-list last time round ... point. I want to ... Read more
Rushdie favourite to win Best of the Booker prize
Yorkshire Post; 5/12/2008; 328 words ; ... favourite to win the Best of the Booker prize after being shortlisted for the ... year's 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize, which was launched in 1969. A ... the acclaimed author, who won the Booker prize for Midnight's Children, his second ... Read more
Roddy Doyle Wins U.K.'s Booker Prize
The Washington Post; 10/27/1993; David Streitfeld; 572 words ; ... Doyle won the 1993 Booker Prize last night in London ... richest British book prize - Doyle will take home $30,000 - the Booker is the most significant ... right, attacked the Booker on television last week, saying the prize had been going to ... Read more
Down to earth. (1988 Booker Prize)
The Economist (US); 10/29/1988; 529 words ; IN THE evidence of this year's Booker prize, the literati of Britain and the ... British book prize of which the Booker prize for fiction, established in 1968 ... awarded. Mr Peter Carey, who won the Booker prize on October 25th for his fantastic ... Read more

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