About Booker Prize
The Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom. The winner of the Booker Prize is generally assured international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.
Booker Prize 2023: Ireland's Paul Lynch wins with Prophet Song
...By Charlotte GallagherCulture correspondentThe 2023 Booker Prize has been awarded to Prophet Song, a dystopian vision of Ireland in the grips of totalitarianism...
Booker Prize 2023 shortlist: Who are the six authors hoping to win tonight?
...By Katie RazzallCulture and media editorWho will win the Booker Prize on Sunday night? Will it be one of the three men on the shortlist called Paul? Or one of two candidates who are first-time novelists? Here s a look at the six nominees vying for the £50,000 prize: The Bee Sting - Paul MurrayThe story: This epic page-turner is about a family derailing and the secrets they keep...
AS Byatt: Author, critic and poet dies aged 87
... The renowned writer, whose full name was Antonia Susan Byatt, won the Booker Prize for her 1990 novel Possession...
Booker Prize 2023: The Bee Sting and Western Lane make short list
...By Steven McIntoshEntertainment reporterThe novels that will compete for this year s Booker Prize have been revealed, with all six of the authors short-listed for the first time...
Sir Salman Rushdie says he has 'crazy dreams' about attack in New York
... Sir Salman, who won the Booker Prize in 1981 for his second novel Midnight s Children, recently appeared in person to receive an outstanding achievement award in London for his body of work over the last fifty years...
King's Birthday Honours: Ian Wright, Ken Bruce and Davina McCall on list
... " Nigerian-born poet and author Sir Ben - who won the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road in 1991 - is also knighted, as well as Sir Martin, who accepted the honour Also given knighthoods are former BBC director general Mark Thompson and Sky executive chairman Jeremy Darroch, who has been acknowledged for services to business, charity and sustainability...
Dua Lipa: 'I've been the new girl all my life'
... She made a speech at the Booker Prize ceremony last year about the power of literature...
Sir Salman Rushdie writing again following attack
... The Booker Prize winner was among those recognised at Windsor Castle on Tuesday after being made a Servant of the Companions of Honour...
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