Booker Prize

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Co-Prize Winner 2019: Margaret Atwood

The Booker Prize (officially the Man Booker Prize for Fiction until May 2019 , historically Booker – McConnell Prize until 2002 ) is the most important British literary prize . The award has been given annually since 1969 to the best English-language novel published in the United Kingdom . From 1969 to 2013 the award was reserved for authors from the Commonwealth , Ireland , South Africa and later also Zimbabwe . Since 2018 novels published in Ireland can also be considered. The winner will receive £ 50,000 .

The award was originally given by Booker plc, a UK grocery wholesaler. From 2002, the Booker Prize Foundation was responsible for the award. The main sponsor from 2002 to 2018 was Man Group plc , which is said to have invested a total of around 28 million euros in the literature prize during this period before announcing its withdrawal as a sponsor in early 2019. Since June 2019 the charitable foundation Crankstart of the British businessman Michael Moritz and his wife Harriet Heyman has financed the award of the literary prize. Therefore, the Man Booker Prize officially changed its name back to The Booker Prize .

Structures

A comparatively complicated procedure is used to ensure high quality standards. First of all, the Booker Prize Foundation appoints an advisory board whose sole task is to choose the new jurors to be appointed every year. It is mandatory to sit on this advisory board: a representative of the writers , two publishers , a literary agent , a bookseller , a librarian as well as a moderator and chairman from the foundation itself. The jurors are selected from the opinion leaders of literary critics, writers, literary scholars and public figures . Multiple nominations as a jury member have remained the exception rather than the rule over the years.

Economic importance for the book market

Due to the high attention value of the award, the awarding of which is broadcast live on television, booker winners usually do extremely well in the summer and especially in the pre-Christmas book trade .

Award winners

year Prize winner title German title
1969 Percy Howard Newby Something to Answer for not known
1970 Bernice Rubens The Elected Member not known
1971 VS Naipaul In a free state In a free country
1972 John Berger G G.
1973 James Gordon Farrell The Siege of Krishnapur The Siege of Krishnapur
1974 Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist The owner
Stanley Middleton Holiday not known
1975 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat and Dust Heat and dust
1976 David Storey Saville not known
1977 Paul Scott Staying on Aftermath
1978 Iris Murdoch The Sea, the Sea The sea, the sea
1979 Penelope Fitzgerald Offshore A houseboat on the Thames
1980 William Golding Rites of Passage Equator Baptism
1981 Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children Midnight children
1982 Thomas Keneally Schindler's Ark Schindlers List
1983 JM Coetzee Life & Times of Michael K Life and time of Michael K.
1984 Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac Hotel du Lac
1985 Keri Hulme The Bone People Under the day moon
1986 Kingsley Amis The Old Devils not known
1987 Penelope Lively Moon tiger Moon tiger
1988 Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda Oscar and Lucinda
1989 Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day What was left of the day
1990 AS Byatt Possession Obsessed
1991 Ben Okri The Famished Road The hungry street
1992 Michael Ondaatje The English Patient The English patient
Barry Unsworth Sacred hunger The slave ship
1993 Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1994 James Kelman How Late it was, How Late It was late, so late
1995 Pat Barker The Ghost Road The street of the spirits
1996 Graham Swift Last orders Last round
1997 Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things The god of little things
1998 Ian McEwan Amsterdam Amsterdam
1999 JM Coetzee Disgrace shame
2000 Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin The blind killer
2001 Peter Carey The True History of the Kelly Gang The real story of Ned Kelly and his gang
2002 Yann Martel Life of Pi Shipwreck with Tiger
2003 DBC Pierre Vernon God Little Jesus of Texas
2004 Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty The beauty line
2005 John Banville The Sea The sea
2006 Kiran Desai The inheritance of loss Heir to the lost land
2007 Anne Enright The Gathering The family reunion
2008 Aravind Adiga The White Tiger The White tiger
2009 Hilary coat Wolf Hall Wolves
2010 Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question The Finkler question
2011 Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending From the end of a story
2012 Hilary coat Bring up the bodies Hawks
2013 Eleanor Catton The Luminaries The stars
2014 Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North The narrow path through the hinterland
2015 Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings A brief history of seven murders
2016 Paul Beatty The Sellout The traitor
2017 George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo Lincoln in the bardo
2018 Anna Burns Milkman Milkman
2019 Margaret Atwood The Testaments The witnesses
Bernardine Evaristo Girl, woman, other not known

Special prices

  • In 1993, on the 25th anniversary of the award, a jury headed by Malcolm Bradbury awarded the Booker of Bookers award to all previous Booker award winners. The winner was Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children ( Midnight's Children ), the Booker Prize winner of the year 1981st
  • In 2008, the Best of the Booker was again voted for the best Booker Prize winner. A three-person jury led by former jury member Victoria Glendinning put together a shortlist of all the novels that have won awards so far , which the general public decided on in an online vote. Rushdie won again with Midnight's Children :
year Best of the Booker (2008) title German title
1981 Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children Midnight children
1973 JG Farrell The Siege of Krishnapur The Siege of Krishnapur
1974 Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist The owner
1988 Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda Oscar and Lucinda
1995 Pat Barker The Ghost Road The street of the spirits
1999 JM Coetzee Disgrace shame
  • Due to a change in the award criteria, novels published in 1970 could not be nominated for the Booker Prize. In a public Internet vote held from March 25 to April 30, 2010, the Lost Man Booker Prize was therefore awarded from six shortlisted novels . This posthumously won JG Farrell for Troubles , who had already won a regular Booker Prize in 1973 for The Siege of Krishnapur .
  • From February to April 2011, The Man Booker Best of Beryl was determined in an online vote . The shortlisted works by British writer Beryl Bainbridge (1932-2010) were available for selection between 1973 and 1998 . Bainbridge was shortlisted the most (five times) without ever winning the award. Among the nominated works The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974, German title: Der Ausflug ), An Awfully Big Adventure (1990), Every Man for Himself (1996, German title: Nachtlicht ) and Master Georgie ( 1998, German title: Master Georgie ), the Internet audience selected the latter novel as the best work by Bainbridge nominated for the Booker Prize.
  • For the 50th anniversary of the prize in 2018, the Golden Man Booker Prize was awarded, with the winner being determined in a combined jury and audience vote. Each of the five judges was assigned a decade - author and editor Robert McCrum (1970s), poet Lemn Sissay (1980s), novelist Kamila Shamsie (1990s), radio host and author Simon Mayo (2000s) Years) and the poet Hollie McNish (2010s). Each member of the jury selected what they thought was the best work from among the novels of the decade that had been awarded the Booker Prize. The jury agreed on a shortlist of five titles ("Golden Five"), which were announced on May 26, 2018 at the Hay Festival . An online vote on the preselected novels took place from May 26th to June 25th 2018, in which the winner was determined by the audience. The novel that won the Golden Man Booker Prize is The English Patient ; it was announced on July 8, 2018 at the Man Booker 50 Festival . The nominated novels at a glance:
year Golden Man Booker Prize (2018) title German title
1992 Michael Ondaatje The English Patient The English patient
1971 VS Naipaul In a free state In a free country
1987 Penelope Lively Moon tiger Moon tiger
2009 Hilary coat Wolf Hall Wolves
2017 George Saunders Lincoln in the Bardo Lincoln in the bardo

International offshoots

In 1992, the so-called Russian Booker Prize was awarded for the first time in Russia , which - modeled after the Booker Prize related to the Commonwealth - is awarded annually for the best new novel in Russian .

In 2008, the Booker Prize Foundation in London assisted in the first awarding of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction . Although there is no direct link, this price is also often referred to in the media as the “Arab Booker Price”.

From 2007 to 2012, the Man Asian Literary Prize was sponsored by the Man Group for Asia .

See also (highest national literary awards)

literature

  • Anna Auguscik: Lost in Translation. Literature prizes in the national literature business. In: Philipp Theisohn, Christine Weder (Hrsg.): Literaturbetrieb. On the poetics of a production community. Fink, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-7705-5296-2 , pp. 97-112.

Web links

Commons : Man Booker Prize  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Background. The Prizes ( Memento of April 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: themanbookerprize.com (accessed June 15, 2017).
  2. ^ Steven Erlanger: The Backlash to the American Invasion of the Booker Prize. In: New York Times . September 21, 2013, p. C1.
  3. ^ Man Booker prize to accept books published in Ireland for the first time . In: theguardian.com , January 8, 2018 (accessed January 9, 2018).
  4. ↑ Man Booker Prize loses sponsor , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, January 27, 2019, accessed on January 28, 2019
  5. ↑ Crankstart is the new supporter of the Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize . In: themanbookerprize.com, February 27, 2019 (accessed May 23, 2019).
  6. ^ Rob Scully (Press Association): Rushdie wins 'Booker of Bookers' Award. September 21, 1993 (accessed via Nexis ).
  7. ↑ Best of the Booker ( Memento from April 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: themanbookerprize.com (accessed June 15, 2017).
  8. ^ Robert Dex: Honor at last for a 'Booker bridesmaid'. In: The Independent . February 8, 2011, p. 16.
  9. ↑ Timeline 2011 ( Memento from September 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: themanbookerprize.com (accessed June 15, 2017).
  10. ↑ 'The English Patient' Wins Best of Man Booker Prize , nytimes.com, July 8, 2018, accessed July 9, 2018
  11. ^ The Golden Man Booker Prize . In: themanbookerprize.com , February 15, 2018 (accessed March 21, 2018).
  12. ^ The Golden Man Booker Prize shortlist . In: themanbookerprize.com (accessed June 12, 2018).