List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction
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The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. Winning titles are listed first in their year and marked by blue backgrounds.
The prize has been awarded every year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. There have also been two special awards celebrating the Booker's history. In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, "The Best of the Booker".
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- ^ "…in 1971, just two years after it began, the Booker Prize ceased to be awarded retrospectively and became – as it is today – a prize for the best novel of the year of publication. At the same time the award moved from April to November and, as a result, a wealth of fiction published for much of 1970 fell through the net and was never considered for the prize." See "Lost Man Booker Prize shortlist announced".
- ^ (novella from the collection Two Lives)
- ^ "Man Booker Prize 2009 Shortlist announced". Man Booker Prize. http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1275. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
