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In 2018 a special “Golden Booker” was awarded celebrating 50 years of the award – this award was won by Michael Ondaatje for The English Patient. O n 17 October, the winner will be announced for this year’s Booker prize, the UK’s most prestigious prize for long-form fiction. In 2005, the Institution also established the bi-annual International award (to. Midnight’s Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize’s fortieth anniversary, “The Best of the Booker”. Since 2002, the Booker Prize Foundation is responsible for the Booker award. In 1993, the “Booker of Bookers” prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight’s Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years.

There have been three special awards celebrating the Booker’s history. The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize) is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom. Winning titles are listed in yellow, first in their year. The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. 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 that proved controversial. She was the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice for the first two of her Cromwell books, 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies.' The third novel, 'The Mirror And The Light,' was published in. The winner of the Booker Prize is generally assured international renown and success therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade. The UKs most prestigious award for fiction in English, the Booker Prize has been a benchmark for outstanding literary excellence for over five decades. The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.