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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.
The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success ; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.
The 2012 Man Booker Prize is to be awarded on 16 October 2012.
" When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, which opted to retain " Booker " as part of the official title of the prize.
The prize money awarded with the 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.
The Booker Prize Foundation announced in January 2010 the creation of a special award called the " Lost Man Booker Prize ," with the winner chosen from a longlist of 22 novels published in 1970.
* Strickland, Arvarh E. " Review: Booker T. Washington: The Myth and the Man ," Reviews in American History vol.
Category: Man Booker Prize winning works
His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz ( 1959 ) and Barney's Version ( 1997 ); his 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 1990.
* 1991: Man Booker Prize, shortlist, Such a Long Journey
* 1996: Man Booker Prize, shortlist, A Fine Balance
* 2002: Man Booker Prize, shortlist, Family Matters
* Unless, 2002 ( winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, shortlisted in 2002 Man / Booker Prize and ScotiaBank / Giller Prize, and shortlisted in 2003 Orange Prize )
* Man Booker Prize
Recent examples include Under the Net ( 1954 ) by Iris Murdoch, Jerzy Kosinski's The Painted Bird ( 1965 ), Thomas Berger's Little Big Man ( 1964 ), Rita Mae Brown's Rubyfruit Jungle ( 1973 ), John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces ( 1980 ), Isabel Allende's Eva Luna ( 1987 ), Edward Abbey's The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel ( 1988 ), Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys ( 1999 ), Helen Zahavi's Dirty Weekend ( 1991 ), C. D. Payne's Youth in Revolt ( 1993 ), Christian Kracht's Faserland ( 1995 ), Umberto Eco's Baudolino ( 2000 ), Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver ( 2003 ), and Aravind Adiga's " The White Tiger " ( Booker Prize 2008 )
In Jacobson's 2010 Man Booker Prize winning novel The Finkler Question, St John's Wood is the planned location for the Museum of Anglo-Jewish Culture.
The work was awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989.
In 1989 the novel won the Man Booker Prize, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the English speaking world.
Category: Man Booker Prize winning works
Category: Man Booker Prize winning works
Category: Man Booker Prize winning works
In 1998 McEwan won the Man Booker Prize with Amsterdam, while Atonement ( 2001 ) was made into an Oscar-winning film.

Man and Prize
The Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man also after a line in " On Wenlock Edge " and Arthur C. Clarke's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman's More Poems.
In 1954, Compañía ‘ Ron Bacardi ’ S. A. paid him homage when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature of his novel The Old Man and the Sea ( 1952 ), in which he honored the Company by mentioning its Hatuey beer.
Two books have been published with write-ups on some of the winners: The Ig Nobel Prize ( 2002, US paperback ISBN 0-452-28573-9, UK paperback ISBN 0-7528-4261-7 ) and The Ig Nobel Prize 2 ( 2005, US hardcover ISBN 0-525-94912-7, UK hardcover ISBN 0-7528-6461-0 ), which was later retitled The Man Who Tried to Clone Himself ( ISBN 0-452-28772-3 ).
* 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
Grizzly Man, directed by Herzog, won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
Marshall was again named Times Man of the Year for 1947 and received the Nobel Peace Prize for his post-war work in 1953.
* The Running Man ( 1982 ) was a book by Stephen King depicting a game show in which a contestant flees around the world from " hunters " trying to chase him down and kill him ; it has been speculated that the book was inspired by Robert Sheckley's The Prize of Peril.

Man and winning
Sinatra also forged a highly successful career as a film actor, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity, a nomination for Best Actor for The Man with the Golden Arm, and critical acclaim for his performance in The Manchurian Candidate.
His unusual profession consists of repeatedly winning the cash prize in a local newspaper competition called, " Where Will The Little Green Man Be Next ?".
Sandra Annette Bullock (; born July 26, 1964 ) is an American and Academy Award winning actress and producer who rose to fame in the 1990s after roles in successful films such as Demolition Man, Speed, The Net, Hope Floats, A Time to Kill, and While You Were Sleeping.
** Man of La Mancha opens in a Greenwich Village theatre in New York and eventually becomes one of the greatest musical hits of all time, winning a Tony Award for its star, Richard Kiley.
* March 29 – The 61st Academy Awards are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, with Rain Man winning Best Picture.
Throughout the pre-production and the early principal photography, the project still retained Kelland's original title, Opera Hat, although Capra tried out some other titles including A Gentleman Goes to Town and Cinderella Man before settling on a name that was the winning entry in a contest held by the Columbia Pictures publicity department.
Between the years of 1986 and 1992, Fort Hancock High School played in the Six Man Football state championship game 6 times, winning 5 state championships.
Gielgud's crowning achievement, many believe, was Ages of Man, his one-man recital of Shakespearean excerpts which he performed throughout the 1950s and 1960s, winning a Tony Award for the Broadway production, a Grammy Award for his recording of the piece, and an Emmy Award for producer David Susskind for the 1966 telecast on CBS.
In 1998 and ' 99, More and The Old Man and the Sea became the first short films produced using the IMAX format and both earned Academy Award nominations, with Old Man and the Sea winning ( currently the only IMAX film to win an Oscar ).
He co-wrote and played guitars on every track until 1994, when he exited Suede, leaving behind the Mercury Music Prize winning debut Suede, as well as the follow-up Dog Man Star.
York played Sophie Western opposite Albert Finney in the Oscar winning Best Film Tom Jones ( 1963 ) and also appeared in A Man for All Seasons ( 1966 ), The Killing of Sister George ( 1968 ) and Battle of Britain ( 1969 ).
Category: Man Booker Prize winning works
Category: Man Booker Prize winning works
In 1950, Dario Ambrosini also won the 1950 Isle of Man TT, repeating Mellors ’ success and consecrating his title by winning both the Italian and the World Championships.
the greatest Leader, Man of Destiny, Statesman, Titan, a Colossus ", winning critical praise.
Trained by Louis Feustel and ridden by Johnny Loftus, Man o ' War made his debut at Belmont Park on June 6, 1919, winning by six lengths.
In easily winning the 1⅛-mile Preakness Stakes, Man o ' War set a new Pimlico track record of 1: 38-3 / 5 for a mile, then was eased up for the final eighth of a mile to finish in a time of 1: 51-3 / 5.

0.480 seconds.