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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

"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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“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

Coming from an author of Fowler’s achievements — she was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and received a PEN/Faulkner Award the same year — it feels more like malpractice.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2022

“Normal People,” published in 2018, was adapted into a TV series and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

She is a member of a handful of globally acclaimed Somali female writers, including Nadifa Mohamed who was recently shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for her third novel the Fortune Men.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2021

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