Books / the-booker-prize
Facts about The Booker Prize
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Man Booker International Prize, a separate award for fiction in translation, was introduced in 2005 to recognize global literary achievement.
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Only novel to win the Booker Prize twice, J.M. Coetzee achieved this distinction with Life & Times of Michael K in 1983 and Disgrace in 1999.
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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize and later received the special Booker of Bookers award, recognizing it as the best novel to win in the prize's first 25 years.
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Established in 1969, the Booker Prize was originally funded by the food and agricultural company Booker McConnell.
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Awarded annually, the Booker Prize is open to novels written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.