Man Booker Prize

British  

noun

1. an annual prize for a work of Commonwealth or Irish fiction of £50,000, awarded as the Booker Prize from 1969–2002

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Example Sentences

Sir Kazuo, whose books include 1989's The Remains of the Day and 2005's Never Let Me Go, for which he won the Man Booker Prize, was made a Companion of Honour.

From BBC • Nov. 4, 2025

“Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies” won the Man Booker Prize, making Ms. Mantel the first British writer — and the first woman — to win the honor two times.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2022

Mantel twice won the Man Booker Prize for 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring up the Bodies', the first two books in the trilogy.

From Reuters • Sep. 23, 2022

Black, as Banville has often told interviewers, wrote straightforward prose, not novels like “The Sea,” which earned Banville the 2005 Man Booker Prize.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2020

When Barnes was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2011 for “The Sense of an Ending,” one of the judges called him “an unparalleled magus of the heart.”

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2020