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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.
In contrast to literary prizes in the United States, the Booker Prize is greeted with great anticipation and fanfare.
The 2012 Man Booker Prize is to be awarded on 16 October 2012.
The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize, after the company Booker-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968 ; it became commonly known as the " Booker Prize " or simply " the Booker.
" 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 foundation is an independent registered charity funded by the entire profits of Booker Prize Trading Ltd., of which it is the sole shareholder.
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.
Alice Munro has a unique place in Booker Prize history ; The Beggar Maid is the only short story collection to have been shortlisted, doing so in 1980.
The selection process for the winner of the prize commences with the formation of an advisory committee which includes an author, two publishers, a literary agent, a bookseller, a librarian, and a chairperson appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation.
In 1993 to mark the 25th anniversary it was decided to choose a Booker of Bookers Prize.
Category: Booker Prize winners
In the Man Booker Prize winning novel " Life of Pi ", the protagonist, Pi Patel, sole human survivor of a ship wreck in the Pacific Ocean, befriends another survivor: a large Bengal tiger.
Category: Booker Prize winners
* J. G. Farrell: Troubles, The Siege of Krishnapur ( 1973 Booker Prize Winner ) and The Singapore Grip
The novel won the Canadian Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize for fiction.
Category: Man Booker Prize winning works

Booker and Foundation
She is also Vice President of the Man Booker Prize Foundation and a member of the Supervisory Board of the Booker Prize for Russian Fiction.
Before the announcement of the 2005 winner, the Booker Foundation decided to end its partnership with Open Russia after the foundation's chairman, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was sentenced to nine years in prison for tax evasion.
He has argued over 53 cases before the United States Supreme Court, including McConnell v. FEC, Tennessee v. Lane, Rumsfeld v. Padilla, United States v. Booker, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld v. FAIR, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Gonzales v. Raich, Gonzales v. Oregon, Gonzales v. Carhart, and Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Booker and announced
General Manager Theodore Long announced a six-man elimination match between John " Bradshaw " Layfield, Booker T, Chris Benoit, The Undertaker, Christian ( replacing The Big Show, who was picked by Raw in the lottery ), and Muhammad Hassan to crown the first SmackDown!
During the ceremony, however, Lawler announced another king as a new opponent for Booker, " The King of Kings " Triple H. This led to a worked brawl between Lawler and Booker.
On January 5 edition of Raw, Kane announced that he was going to win the Royal Rumble but was confronted by Booker T, who claimed that he would eliminate Kane from the match and win the match.
However, on September 9, 2008, the Booker nominee shortlist was announced and the novel, surprisingly at least for some critics at the New York Times, failed to make the list.
January 2011 – Steve Hayes has announced his intentions to build a new stadium for Wanderers and Wasps at Booker, just up the road from Adams park.
As soon as the challenge was made, Raw General manager, Eric Bischoff, announced that the following week on Raw, Rock would face Booker T in a match, and if he won, he would have the choice to face either Austin or Triple H at WrestleMania.
Logan Booker announced at the end of August 2007 he would be stepping down, issue 81 being his last as editor.
On 19 May 2010, it was announced that Troubles had retrospectively won the Lost Man Booker Prize, which was created to recognise works published in 1970 ( a group that had not previously been open for consideration due to a change in the eligibility rules at the time ).
Booker announced on February 11, 2006, that he would again run for mayor.
After his first week in office, Booker announced a 100-day plan to implement reforms in Newark ; some of the proposed changes included: adding police officers, ending background checks for many city jobs ( an effort to help former offenders find employment in the city ), refurbishing police stations, improving city services, and expanding summer youth programs.
The gift was formally announced when Booker, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and Zuckerberg appeared together on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Less than a month later, on October 6, WWE. com announced that Wright had re-signed with the company and would be sent to be trained at Booker T and Stevie Ray's wrestling school in Houston, Texas.

Booker and January
Christopher Booker and Richard North wrote an article for the Daily Telegraph in January 2010 alleging potential conflicts of interest related to Pachauri's membership of the board of ONGC and to research grants for TERI, a non-profit institution of which Pachauri is director general.
The first was by defeating Booker T and Goldust on the January 6, 2003 episode of Raw with help from Chief Morley, but they lost the titles at the Royal Rumble to The Dudley Boyz.
Van Dam formed a tag team with Booker T. The two teamed for the first time on the January 19 episode of Raw when they defeated Christian and Matt Hardy to qualify for a battle royal where the winner of the battle royal would get the # 30 spot in the 2004 Royal Rumble match.
Between January 1962 and December 1964, Stax and Volt released several chart hits each by Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, and Booker T. and the M. G .' s.
* Vernon God Little ( January 2003, Booker Prize 2003 )
On January 19 edition of Raw, Goldberg, Randy Orton, Rob Van Dam, Booker T, Mark Henry and Chris Jericho won matches to qualify for a Battle Royal to determine the # 30 entrant of the Royal Rumble match.
More examples include La Résistance defeating William Regal and Jonathan Coachman ( Eugene's Substitute ) to win the World Tag Team Championship on January 16, 2005 in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Christian defeating Booker T to win the WWE Intercontinental Championship on August 10, 2003 as Booker had suffered an injury.
The Court's opinion in Booker came out on January 12, 2005, and drastically changed the legal framework within which federal sentencing takes place.
In 1986, Orson had long eyelashes until they disappeared on January 2, 1988, frequently wore costume tights and Booker and Sheldon called him Mom.
The Bashams would once again win Tag Team gold defeating the teams of Rey Mysterio and Rob Van Dam, Luther Reigns and Mark Jindrak, and Eddie Guerrero and Booker T in a four-way elimination match in January 2005.
In December 2009, Christopher Booker and Richard North published an article in The Sunday Telegraph in which they questioned whether Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ), was using his position for personal gain, with a followup Telegraph article in January 2010.
Rock however, was unable to win after he was eliminated by Booker T ; after the match, Rock criticized Steve Austin for being chosen as the Superstar of the Decade by the WWE fans in January, beginning the feud between Rock and Austin.
Booker hauled in a 15 yard touchdown pass from Gus Frerotte in fourth quarter of a January 1 contest against the New England Patriots, giving the Dolphins a 25-13 lead in their 28-26 victory.
The Bashams would once again win Tag Team gold defeating the teams of Rey Mysterio and Rob Van Dam, Luther Reigns and Mark Jindrak, and Eddie Guerrero and Booker T in a four-way elimination match in January 2005.
Bibb released Booker's Guitar in January 2010 with music channeled from the Delta Guitar Master himself, Booker White, also known as Bukka White.
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