The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a Literary Prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations,Ireland or Zimbabwe.
The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize, after the Company Booker - McConnel began sponsoring the event in 1968; it became commonly known as the "Booker Prize" or simply "the Booker." When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, which opted to retain "Booker" as part of the official title of the prize. The foundation is an independent registered charity funded by the entire profits of Booker Prize Trading Ltd., of which it is the sole shareholder. The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £21,000, and was subsequently raised to £50,000 in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Man Group, making it one of the World's Richest Literary Prizes.
In 1993 to mark the 25th anniversary it was decided to choose a Booker of Bookers Prize. Three previous judges of the award,Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb, met and chose Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as "the Best Novel out of all the Winners.
A similar prize known as The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the prize. A short list of six winners was chosen and the decision was left to a public vote. The winner was again Midnight's Children.
Winners Details
Hilary Mantel(UK) Wins 2012 Man Booker Prize for 'Bring Up The Bodies'
British writer Hilary Mantel won the prestigious 2012Booker literary prize for a second time on Tuesday Oct 16,2012 with her blood-soaked Tudor saga 'Bring Up the Bodies,' which the head of the judging panel said had "rewritten the book" on historical fiction.
Mantel, who took the 50,000 pound ($82,000) award in 2009 for 'Wolf Hall,' is the first British author, and the first woman, to achieve a Booker double.
'Bring Up the Bodies' is also the first sequel to win the prize. It and 'Wolf Hall' are parts of a planned trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, the powerful and ambiguous chief minister to King Henry VIII.
Nominees of 2012 Man Booker Prize
Indian poet Jeet Thayil is nominated for his first novel, 'Narcopolis,' set among 1970s heroin addicts.
Britain's Will Self - a well-known and often acerbic journalist - is
also a strong contender for the century-spanning stream of consciousness
'Umbrella,' a novel about a woman with encephalitis.
Tan Twan Eng for 'The Garden of Evening Mists,' which centers on a survivor of a World War II Japanese prison camp.
Britain's Alison Moore for 'The Lighthouse,' about a middle-aged man's life-changing ferry trip to Germany
South Africa-born Deborah Levy for 'Swimming Home,' a portrait of the devastation wreaked by depression
The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize, after the Company Booker - McConnel began sponsoring the event in 1968; it became commonly known as the "Booker Prize" or simply "the Booker." When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, which opted to retain "Booker" as part of the official title of the prize. The foundation is an independent registered charity funded by the entire profits of Booker Prize Trading Ltd., of which it is the sole shareholder. The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £21,000, and was subsequently raised to £50,000 in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Man Group, making it one of the World's Richest Literary Prizes.
In 1993 to mark the 25th anniversary it was decided to choose a Booker of Bookers Prize. Three previous judges of the award,Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb, met and chose Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as "the Best Novel out of all the Winners.
A similar prize known as The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the prize. A short list of six winners was chosen and the decision was left to a public vote. The winner was again Midnight's Children.
Winners Details
Hilary Mantel(UK) Wins 2012 Man Booker Prize for 'Bring Up The Bodies'
British writer Hilary Mantel won the prestigious 2012Booker literary prize for a second time on Tuesday Oct 16,2012 with her blood-soaked Tudor saga 'Bring Up the Bodies,' which the head of the judging panel said had "rewritten the book" on historical fiction.
Mantel, who took the 50,000 pound ($82,000) award in 2009 for 'Wolf Hall,' is the first British author, and the first woman, to achieve a Booker double.
'Bring Up the Bodies' is also the first sequel to win the prize. It and 'Wolf Hall' are parts of a planned trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, the powerful and ambiguous chief minister to King Henry VIII.
Nominees of 2012 Man Booker Prize
Indian poet Jeet Thayil is nominated for his first novel, 'Narcopolis,' set among 1970s heroin addicts.
Tan Twan Eng for 'The Garden of Evening Mists,' which centers on a survivor of a World War II Japanese prison camp.
Britain's Alison Moore for 'The Lighthouse,' about a middle-aged man's life-changing ferry trip to Germany
South Africa-born Deborah Levy for 'Swimming Home,' a portrait of the devastation wreaked by depression
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