Whereas the Man Booker Prize was open only to writers from the Commonwealth, Ireland and Zimbabwe, the International Prize was open to all nationalities who had work available in English including translations.
The Man Booker International Prize recognises one writer for his or her achievement in fiction. The Man Booker International Prize is significantly different from the annual Man Booker Prize for Fiction. In seeking out literary excellence, the judges consider a writer's body of work rather than a single novel.
Who has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize?
PH Newby was the first winner of the prize in 1969 with Something to Answer For. From 2002 the prize became The Man Booker Prize when the Man Group plc came on board as sponsor, making Yann Martel the first winner of The Man Booker Prize with Life of Pi.
Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have been named the joint winners of the 2019 Booker Prize after the judges broke their rules by declaring a tie. Atwood's The Testaments, the Canadian writer's follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, was recognised alongside Londoner Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other.
Winners of the Booker Prize
| year* | novel | author |
|---|
| 2016 | The Sellout | Paul Beatty |
| 2017 | Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders |
| 2018 | Milkman | Anna Burns |
| 2019 | The Testaments | Margaret Atwood |
The Booker Prize — worth about $63,000 — recognizes the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Arundhati Roy won the prestigious Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel The God of Small Things. Two other Indian-origin authors had won it before her – Salman Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children won in 1981 and Sir V.S. Naipaul's In a Free State, won in 1971.
The Booker Prize for Fiction
- Title entry form (please submit one form for each submitted title)
- Call-in nominations form (please submit one form for each imprint)
The 2021 Booker Prize judging panel will be chaired by Harvard historian Maya Jasanoff (pictured) and features twice-shortlisted writer Chigozie Obioma and former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.
novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
