What is the Booker Prize?
The Man Booker Prize, which is commonly known as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize that is awarded annually to a work of literature in the English language from a writer from Ireland or the British Commonwealth that is determined to be the best work of the year. It is an extremely prestigious honor to win the Booker Prize. The winner of the award is also given 50,000 pounds, or approximately $100,000 US dollars.
The Man Booker Prize, which is commonly known as the Booker Prize, is a literary prize that is awarded annually to a work of literature in the English language from a writer from Ireland or the British Commonwealth that is determined to be the best work of the year. It is an extremely prestigious honor to win the Booker Prize. The winner of the award is also given 50,000 pounds, or approximately $100,000 US dollars. The Booker Prize was established in 1968, when publisher Tom Maschler approached the Booker Brothers publishing house about the establishment of a literary prize. As a result of the meeting, the Booker Prize for Fiction was established, and has been awarded every year since then. Since that time, the Booker family has established two additional literary prizes: the Booker Russian Novel Prize, and the Caine Prize for African Writing.
