Booker Prize
British literary award established in 1969
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The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969โ2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002โ2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland. The winner of the Booker Prize receives ยฃ50,000, as well as international publicity that usually leads to a significant sales boost. When the prize was created, only novels written by Commonwealth, Irish, and South African citizens were eligible to receive the prize; in 2014, eligibility was widened to any English-language novelโa change that proved controversial.
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