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Booker Prize

British  
/ ˈbʊkə /

noun

  1. the former name for Man Booker Prize

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Dame Hilary, who was best known for Wolf Hall and twice won the Booker Prize, died in 2022.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

It will centre on the life and works of Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Booker Prize winner Dame Iris, who all came to Oxford as undergraduates in the 1930s.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026

If he’s an aficionado of fiction, there’s quite a few in the latest Booker Prize shortlist.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 17, 2026

It’s been a big year for you, with the final season of “And Just Like That…” and judging the Booker Prize.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026

Nearly a decade after his 2016 novel, “All That Man Is,” was passed over for the Booker Prize, David Szalay has taken home gold with his latest work, “Flesh.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2025