Booker Prize for Fiction

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:literary_award
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:The_Booker
gptkb:Emmy_Award
gptkb:Man_Booker_Prize
gptkbp:award £50,000
gptkbp:awardedFor best original novel written in the English language
novel published in the UK or Ireland
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:eligibility authors of any nationality
novel must be published in the UK or Ireland
novel must be written in English
gptkbp:firstAwarded 1969
gptkbp:frequency annual
gptkbp:genre fiction
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Booker Prize for Fiction
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:location gptkb:London
gptkbp:mediaCoverage gptkb:BBC
gptkb:The_Guardian
gptkb:The_Times
gptkb:The_Telegraph
gptkbp:notableEvent 2019 prize was jointly awarded to Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo
Douglas Stuart won in 2020 for 'Shuggie Bain'
Hilary Mantel won twice for the same trilogy
Paul Lynch won in 2023 for 'Prophet Song'
first double winner: J. M. Coetzee
first non-British winner: Nadine Gordimer (1974, South Africa)
Shehan Karunatilaka won in 2022 for 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida'
first winner: P. H. Newby for 'Something to Answer For' (1969)
gptkbp:notableWinner gptkb:Paul_Lynch
gptkb:Hilary_Mantel
gptkb:Kazuo_Ishiguro
gptkb:Margaret_Atwood
gptkb:Salman_Rushdie
gptkb:Ben_Okri
gptkb:Bernardine_Evaristo
gptkb:Damon_Galgut
gptkb:Douglas_Stuart
gptkb:J._M._Coetzee
gptkb:Shehan_Karunatilaka
gptkb:Arundhati_Roy
gptkb:Ian_McEwan
gptkbp:presentedBy gptkb:Booker_Prize_Foundation
gptkbp:relatedAward gptkb:Booker_Prize_for_Russian_Fiction
gptkb:International_Booker_Prize
gptkbp:selectionProcess judged by a panel of literary critics, writers, and academics
gptkbp:sponsor gptkb:Booker_McConnell_Ltd
gptkb:Crankstart
gptkb:Man_Group
gptkbp:website https://thebookerprizes.com/
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Emmy_Award
gptkbp:bfsLayer 3