Man Booker Prize

The Booker Prize is the most important British literary award. It is awarded annually since 1969 for an English-language novel by a writer from the UK, Ireland or the Commonwealth. The winner receives £ 50,000. - In 2005, also was the first time the newly Man Booker International Prize is awarded ( cash prize of 60,000 pounds ), with which an author of any nationality for his available in English (total) work is excellent. This prize is awarded every two years.

The prize was originally awarded by the British firm Booker plc. Since 2002, the Foundation Booker Prize Foundation is responsible for the award. The main sponsor is the Man Group plc, which is why the official name of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, respectively. Man Booker International Prize is.

International broadcasting

In 1992, the so-called Russian Booker Prize was awarded for the first time in Russia, the - modeled after the related to the Commonwealth Booker Prize - is awarded annually for the best novel - New Release in Russian.

Economic Importance for the book market

Due to the high attention value of the prize, the ceremony will be broadcast live on television, cut Booker Excellent in the summer and even in the pre-Christmas book trade generally excellent from.

Structures

To ensure high quality standards a relatively complicated procedure is applied. First, an advisory board is of the Booker Prize Foundation called, the only has the task to nominate new judges to be determined each year. In this council sit compulsory: a representative of the writer, two publisher, a literary agent, a bookseller, a librarian and a moderator and chairman of the Foundation itself Jurors are chosen from among the opinion leaders of the literary critics, writers, literary scholars and public figures. Multiple nominations as a jury member are more likely to have remained over the years the exception than the rule.

The Man Booker Prize excellent novels

Winners of the Man Booker International Prize

See also ( highest national literary awards )

  • The Büchner Prize and the German Book Prize ( Germany ) highly endowed German literary awards: Joseph Breitbach Prize and Georg Büchner Prize
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