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Famous Awards

Image source - by google Booker Prize (British Literary Award) ·          Alternative Titles: Booker McConnell Prize, Booker Prize for Friction, Man Booker Prize . ·          Booker Prize, in full Man Booker Prize, formerly Booker McConnell Prize, prestigious British award given annually to Full-length Novel in English. ·        Booker McConnell , a multinational company, established the Award in 1968 to provide a counterpart to the Prix Goncourt in France . Initially, only English-language writers from the United Kingdom , the Republic of Ireland . In 2013, however, it was announced that the prize would be open to English language writers worldwide from 2014. ·      Rushdie won the Booker (1993) and the best of the Booker (2008) prize when they are given in celebration of the prize’s 25 th and 40 th anniversaries, respectively. ·        The award was administered by the Book Trust until 2002, when oversight passed to the Man Group PLC, an investment management