What is the Man Booker Prize?
So what is the hoo ha all about? The Booker is one of the most prestigious literary awards of recent times. And it suddenly seems well within reach! After all it’s yet another Indian in the spotlight. The current Booker prize was born in 1968 -69 and is awarded every year to the best original full length novel in English to a writer in the commonwealth countries and Ireland .It became the Man Booker in 2001 when the Man investment group became its sponsors. With a prize money of 87000 $ or 50,000 pounds it has a 6 member advisory committee of two publishers, an author, a book seller, a librarian and a chairman appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation. They in turn choose the ‘panel of judges’ every year from a host of notable literary figures .To win the Booker is to attain literary nirvana. In terms of name, money and prestige. So nobody can blame writers for wanting to become a part of the scenario. Least of all the publishers. With all the hype around it, it has become every serious
