MAN BOOKER PRIZE

About:

• Background: The Man Booker Prize was established in 1969.
  
  
• Objective: to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written in English.
  
  
• Eligibility:
  • The Man Booker Prize awards any novel originally written in English and published in the UK and Ireland in the year of the prize, regardless of the nationality of their author.
    
    
  • The novel must be an original work in English (not a translation)
    
    
  • It must be published by a registered UK or Irish imprint; self-published novels are not eligible.
    
    
  
  
  
• Prize Money: The winner receives £50,000 as well as the £2,500 awarded to each of the shortlisted authors.
  
  
• Organizations involved:
  • Man Group: Man Group is an active investment management firm founded in 1783. It has sponsored the Man Booker Prize since 2002
    
    
  • The Booker Prize Foundation: It is a registered charity established in 2002. Since then it has been responsible for the award of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and for the Man Booker International Prize since its inauguration in 2005.
    
    
  
  
  

2018 prize:

• 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker Prize.
  
  
• Burns is the first writer from Northern Ireland to win the 50,000-pound ($66,000) prize.