The Man Booker Prize.
'The Man Booker Prize' award (Booker Prize) is considered ‘Oscars
for Novels’. First time ‘The Man Booker prize’ was awarded in 1969 to P.H. Newby’s novel
‘Something to Answer For’. The Man Booker Prize is given to fiction work/novel in English every year by the
citizen of Commonwealth Nations and Ireland. The award originally known as
Booker –McConnell Prize, after the company Booker McConnell started sponsoring the
prize way back in the year 1968. In 2002 administration of the prize transfer to
Booker Prize Foundation and sponsor became the investment company ‘Man Group’
and chosen to retain ‘Booker’ as part of official title of the prize.
This
year ‘The Man Booker Prize-2012’ award will be declared today in short while among
six shortlisted Novels. Among these six shortlisted we have nomination from
Indian writer Jeet Thyil for his debut novel ‘Narcopolis’. Other shortlist
authors are Tan Twan Eng for 'The garden of Evening Mists', Deborah Levy for 'Swimming
Home', Hilary Mantel for 'Bring Up the Bodies', Alison Moore for 'The Lighthouse' and Will Self for 'Umbrella'.
Salman
Rushdie- 'Midnights Children', Arundhati Roy-'God of Small Things', Kiran Desai-'The Inheritance of Loss' and Arvind Adiga- 'The White Tiger' of India who have won the
prestigious award in past.
Whereas
Man Booker International Prize is international literary award given to living
author of any nationality for book published in English or available in English
form after translation. The Man Booker
International Prize first time held in 2005 and awarded to Albanian novelist
Ismail Kadare.
Sl No
|
Year
|
Author
|
Title
|
Genre
|
Country
|
1
|
1969
|
P. H. Newby
|
Something to Answer For
|
Novel
|
United Kingdom
|
2
|
1970
|
Bernice Rubens
|
The Elected Member
|
Novel
|
United Kingdom
|
3
|
1970[a]
|
J. G. Farrell
|
Troubles
|
Novel
|
United Kingdom
|
Ireland
|
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4
|
1971
|
V. S. Naipaul
|
In a Free State
|
Short story
|
United Kingdom
|
Trinidad and Tobago
|
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5
|
1972
|
John Berger
|
G.
|
Experimental novel
|
United Kingdom
|
7
|
1974
|
Nadine Gordimer
|
The Conservationist
|
Novel
|
South Africa
|
8
|
Stanley Middleton
|
Holiday
|
Novel
|
United Kingdom
|
|
$
|
1975
|
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
|
Heat and Dust
|
Historical novel
|
United Kingdom
|
Germany
|
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10
|
1976
|
David Storey
|
Saville
|
Novel
|
United Kingdom
|
11
|
1977
|
Paul Scott
|
Staying On
|
Novel
|
United Kingdom
|
12
|
1978
|
Iris Murdoch
|
The Sea, the Sea
|
Philosophical novel
|
Ireland
|
United Kingdom
|
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13
|
1979
|
Penelope Fitzgerald
|
Offshore
|
Novel
|
United Kingdom
|
14
|
1980
|
William Golding
|
Rites of Passage
|
Novel
|
United Kingdom
|
15
|
1981
|
Salman Rushdie
|
Midnight's Children
|
Magical realism
|
India
|
United Kingdom
|
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16
|
1982
|
Thomas Keneally
|
Schindler's Ark
|
Biographical novel
|
Australia
|
17
|
1983
|
J. M. Coetzee
|
Life & Times of Michael K
|
Novel
|
South Africa
|
18
|
1984
|
Anita Brookner
|
Hotel du Lac
|
Novel
|
United Kingdom
|
19
|
1985
|
Keri Hulme
|
The Bone People
|
Mystery novel
|
New Zealand
|
20
|
1986
|
Kingsley Amis
|
The Old Devils
|
Comic novel
|
United Kingdom
|
21
|
1987
|
Penelope Lively
|
Moon Tiger
|
Novel
|
United Kingdom
|
22
|
1988
|
Peter Carey
|
Oscar and Lucinda
|
Novel
|
Australia
|
23
|
1989
|
Kazuo Ishiguro
|
The Remains of the Day
|
Historical novel
|
United Kingdom
|
Japan
|
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24
|
1990
|
A. S. Byatt
|
Possession
|
Novel
|
United Kingdom
|
25
|
1991
|
Ben Okri
|
The Famished Road
|
Magic realism
|
Nigeria
|
26
|
1992
|
Michael Ondaatje
|
The English Patient
|
Historiographic metafiction
|
Canada
|
Sri Lanka
|
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27
|
Barry Unsworth
|
Sacred Hunger
|
Historical novel
|
United Kingdom
|
|
28
|
1993
|
Roddy Doyle
|
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
|
Novel
|
Ireland
|
29
|
1994
|
James Kelman
|
How Late It Was, How Late
|
Stream of consciousness
|
United Kingdom
|
30
|
1995
|
Pat Barker
|
The Ghost Road
|
War novel
|
United Kingdom
|
31
|
1996
|
Graham Swift
|
Last Orders
|
Novel
|
United Kingdom
|
32
|
1997
|
Arundhati Roy
|
The God of Small Things
|
Novel
|
India
|
33
|
1998
|
Ian McEwan
|
Amsterdam
|
Novel
|
United Kingdom
|
34
|
1999
|
J. M. Coetzee
|
Disgrace
|
Novel
|
South Africa
|
35
|
2000
|
Margaret Atwood
|
The Blind Assassin
|
Novel
|
Canada
|
36
|
2001
|
Peter Carey
|
True History of the Kelly Gang
|
Historical novel
|
Australia
|
37
|
2002
|
Yann Martel
|
Life of Pi
|
Fantasy novel
|
Canada
|
38
|
2003
|
DBC Pierre
|
Vernon God Little
|
Novel
|
Australia
|
39
|
2004
|
Alan Hollinghurst
|
The Line of Beauty
|
Historical novel
|
United Kingdom
|
40
|
2005
|
John Banville
|
The Sea
|
Novel
|
Ireland
|
42
|
2007
|
Anne Enright
|
The Gathering
|
Novel
|
Ireland
|
43
|
2008
|
Aravind Adiga
|
The White Tiger
|
Novel
|
India
|
44
|
2009
|
Hilary Mantel
|
Wolf Hall
|
Historical novel
|
United Kingdom
|
45
|
2010
|
Howard Jacobson
|
The Finkler Question
|
Novel
|
United Kingdom
|
47
|
2012
|
Hilary Mantel
|
Bring Up the Bodies
|
Novel
|
UK
|
2 comments:
And Man Booker prize for 2012 goes to Hilary Mantel for Bring Up the Bodies.
This is her Second booker price.
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