Difference between Man Booker Prize and Man Booker International Prize

Do Not Get Confused...

Lecture Notes - Anil S Awad

1. The Man Booker Prize Award was formed in 1969 while the Man Booker International Prize was formed in 2004.

2. The Man Booker Prize is awarded every year while the Man Booker International Prize is biannual (after every two years from 2005).

3. The Man Booker Prize is endowed only to the Commonwealth Countries (formerly ruled by British Empire – India, Pakistan, Australia, Canada etc.), Irish and Zimbabwean citizens. The Man Booker International Prize is awarded to the citizen of any nationalities.

4. The Man Booker Prize is awarded to the Original Work (novel) in English language only. The Man Booker International Prize is given to English or English Translation work from other languages.

5. While awarding The Man Booker Prize, Single Piece of Literary Work is considered (A single novel only). The Man Booker International Award is awarded by considering the overall contribution of the writer in literary field.

Some Facts – 

1) Man Group is a British Investment Company formed by James Man in 1783. The awards are given after the name of the company...hence ‘Man’ Booker Awards...the word ‘Man’ has nothing to do with gender issue...it is surname.

2) Since 1971 the Man Booker Prize Awards are given to the work of the same year. So no award was given to any writer of 1970. But in 2010... J. G. Farrell was awarded the Prize for his novel ‘Troubles’ (1970). It was chosen from the list of the 22 novels published in 1970. This is the only award of its kind and called as ‘The Lost Man Booker Prize Award’... a retrospective award.

3) In 1972, John Berger who won Man Booker Prize for his experimental novel ‘G.’ publically criticized the Booker-McConnell for their exploitation of the Caribbean island for sugar-cane productions and even donated $5000 from the prize money to Black Panther, the contemporary social and revolutionary group. It created a great controversy at that time.

4) In 1980, Anthony Burgess, author of ‘Earthly Powers’, refused to attend the ceremony of the Man Booker Prize unless it was confirmed to him in advance whether he had won. He was one of two books considered likely to win, the other being ‘Rites of Passage’ by William Golding. The judges decided only 30 minutes before the ceremony, giving the prize to Golding. Both novels had been seen as favourites to win leading up to the prize and the dramatic "literary battle" between two senior authors made front page news.

5) The prize money awarded with the Man Booker Prize was originally £21,000, and was subsequently raised to £50,000 in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Man Group, making it one of the world's richest literary prizes.

6) In 1970, Bernice Rubens became the first woman to win the Man Booker Prize, for The Elected Member.

7) The inaugural winner of Man Booker International Prize was Albanian writer Ismail Kadare(2005). He was followed by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe in 2007 and two years later, Canadian writer Alice Munro, was named the winner of the award. In 2011 the prize was awarded to American Philip Roth.

8) The Man Booker International Prize award is worth £60,000 and an author can only win once.

9) The Man Booker International prize also allows for a separate award for translation. The winning author can choose a translator of their work into English to receive a prize sum of £15,000.

10) ‘The Midnight Children’ of Salman Rushdie is considered as the Best of the Man Booker Prize Winning Master Piece.

(Jamaican writer Marlon James wins Man Booker Prize - 2015)

Winners of Man Booker Prize

Year – Author – Title - Genere(s) - Nationality
1969 - P. H. Newby - Something to Answer For –Novel -United Kingdom
1970 - Bernice Rubens - The Elected Member – Novel - United Kingdom
1970 - J. G. Farrell – Troubles – Novel - United Kingdom/Ireland
1971 - V. S. Naipaul - In a Free State - Short story - United Kingdom Trinidad and Tobago
1972 - John Berger - G.- Experimental novel - United Kingdom
1973 - J. G. Farrell - The Siege of Krishnapur – Novel - United Kingdom/ Ireland
1974 - Nadine Gordimer - The Conservationist – Novel - South Africa
Stanley Middleton – Holiday – Novel - United Kingdom
1975 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Heat and Dust - Historical Novel - United Kingdom/Germany
1976 - David Storey – Saville - Novel - United Kingdom
1977 - Paul Scott - Staying On – Novel -United Kingdom
1978 - Iris Murdoch - The Sea, the Sea - Philosophical Novel –Ireland/United Kingdom
1979 – Penelope Fitzgerald – Offshore – Novel - United Kingdom
1980 - William Golding - Rites of Passage – Novel - United Kingdom
1981 - Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children - Magical realism –India/United Kingdom
1982 - Thomas Keneally - Schindler's Ark - Biographical novel -Australia
1983 - J. M. Coetzee - Life & Times of Michael K – Novel - South Africa
1984 - Anita Brookner - Hotel du Lac – Novel - United Kingdom
1985 - Keri Hulme - The Bone People - Mystery novel -New Zealand
1986 - Kingsley Amis - The Old Devils - Comic novel - United Kingdom
1987 - Penelope Lively - Moon Tiger – Novel - United Kingdom
1988 - Peter Carey - Oscar and Lucinda – Novel - Australia
1989 - Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day - Historical Novel -United Kingdom/Japan
1990 - A. S. Byatt – Possession – Novel - United Kingdom
1991 - Ben Okri - The Famished Road - Magic realism - Nigeria
1992 - Michael Ondaatje - - The English Patient - Historiographic metafiction - Canada
Barry Unsworth - Sacred Hunger -Historical novel –Srilanka - United Kingdom
1993 - Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha – Novel - Ireland
1994 - James Kelman - How Late It Was, How Late - Stream of consciousness - United Kingdom
1995 - Pat Barker - The Ghost Road - War novel - United Kingdom
1996 - Graham Swift - Last Orders – Novel - United Kingdom
1997 - Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things – Novel - India
1998 - Ian McEwan – Amsterdam – Novel -United Kingdom
1999 - J. M. Coetzee – Disgrace – Novel - South Africa
2000 - Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin – Novel - Canada
2001 - Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang - Historical Novel - Australia
2002 - Yann Martel - Life of Pi - Fantasy Novel - Canada
2003 - DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little – Novel – Australia/Mexico
2004 - Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty - Historical Novel - United Kingdom
2005 - John Banville - The Sea – Novel - Ireland
2006 - Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss – Novel - India
2007 - Anne Enright -The Gathering – Novel – Ireland
2008 - Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger – Novel - India
2009 - Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall - Historical Novel - United Kingdom
2010 - Howard Jacobson - The Finkler Question – Novel - United Kingdom
2011 - Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending – Novel - United Kingdom
2012 - Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies - Historical Novel - United Kingdom
2013 - Eleanor Catton - The Luminaries - Historical novel - New Zealand
2014 - Richard Flanagan - The Narrow Road to the Deep North Historical novel Australia
2015 - Jamaican author Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings

(Hungary's Krasznahorkai wins 2015 Man Booker International Prize)

Winners - Man Booker International Prize

Year Name Country Language(s) Literary tradition
2005 Ismail Kadare Albania Albanian Albanian literature
2007 Chinua Achebe Nigeria English Nigerian literature
2009 Alice Munro Canada English Canadian literature
2011 Philip Roth United States English American literature
2013 Lydia Davis United States English American literature
2015 László Krasznahorkai Hungary Hungarian Hungarian literature


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