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Man Booker Prize – 2018
October 18 , 2018
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- Anna Burns won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction for her novel “Milkman”.
- Burns is the first writer from Northern Ireland to win the prize, which is open to English-language authors from around the world.
- The other finalists were
- The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner’s
- The Long Take by Robin Robertson’s
- Greek tragedy by Daisy Johnson’s
- The Overstory by Richard Power
- Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
The Man Booker Prize
- ‘The Man Booker Prize’, which was launched in 1969, aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written in English and published in the United Kingdom.
- Similarly, ‘The Man Booker International Prize’ was established in 2005, biennially rewarding an author for a body of work originally written in any language as long as it was widely available in English. Both novels and collections of short stories are eligible for this prize.
- From its inception, only Commonwealth, Irish, and South African (and later Zimbabwean) citizens were eligible to receive the prize.
- In 2016, the award was significantly reconfigured, and is now given annually to a single book in English translation, with a £50,000 prize for the winning title, shared equally between author and translator.
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