Booker PrizeBritish literary awardAwardThe Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained English fiction which was published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. It is regarded as one of the most prestigious literary awards, and the winner receives £50,000, as well as international publicity that usually leads to a significant sales boost.
Midnight's ChildrenMidnight's Children is the second novel by Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie, published in 1981 by Jonathan Cape with cover design by Bill Botten, about India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and partition. It is a postcolonial, postmodern and magical realist story told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, set in the context of historical events. The style of preserving history with fictional accounts is self-reflexive.List of winners and nominated authors of the Booker PrizeThe following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of theBooker Prize for Fiction. The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work published in the United Kingdom and written in (not translated into) the English language.
Salman RushdieSir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British and American novelist. His work often combines magical realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations. His novels are typically set on the Indian subcontinent, feature an Indian protagonist, and/or portray Indian familial relationships.
Peter Carey (novelist)Peter Philip Carey (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist who has lived in New York City for more than three decades. He is one of only five writers to have won the Booker Prize twice — the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988, for Oscar and Lucinda, and won his second Booker Prize in 2001, for True History of the Kelly Gang. In May 2008, he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize.
Victoria GlendinningVictoria Glendinning (néeSeebohm; born 23 April 1937) is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist. She is an honorary vice-president of English PEN and vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature. She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Prize for biography. Early life and educationShe was born in Sheffield, England, to a Quaker family.
J. M. CoetzeeSouth African and Australian writer (born 1940)John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language.
Mariella FrostrupMariella Frostrup (born 12 November 1962) is a Norwegian journalist and presenter, known for her work in the United Kingdom. She has written for The Daily Telegraph as a travel writer, The Guardian, The Observer, The Mail on Sunday, Harpers & Queen and the New Statesman. For almost 20 years until 2021 she was The Observer's agony aunt on its relationships page. In October 2024 she was announced as the UK Government's Menopause Employment Ambassador.
John Mullan (academic)John Mullan is a professor of English at University College London (UCL). He is a specialist in eighteenth-century literature, currently writing the 1709–1784 volume of the Oxford English Literary History. He has written a weekly column on contemporary fiction for The Guardian and reviews for the London Review of Books and the New Statesman. He has been a contributor to BBC Two's Newsnight Review and BBC Radio 4's In Our Time.
University College LondonPublic university in London, EnglandUniversity College London, which operates asUCL, is a publicresearch university in London, England. It is a member institution of the federalUniversity of London, and is the second-largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment and the largest by postgraduate enrolment.
Oscar and LucindaOscar and Lucinda is a novel by Australian author Peter Carey. It won the 1988 Booker Prize the year it was released, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. It was shortlisted in 2008 for The Best of the Booker, in celebration of the prize's 40th anniversary. PlotThe book tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, an Anglicanpriest from Devon, England, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress from Parramatta. They meet on a ship from England to Australia.
DisgraceDisgrace is a 1999 novel by South African author J. M. Coetzee. It won the Booker Prize. The writer was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature four years after its publication. PlotDavid Lurie is a white South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his own daughter.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.