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.

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.

* 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 )

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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.

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.

Director Alan J. Levi was impressed by Bullock's performance and offered her a part in the TV movie Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman ( 1989 ).

* Screenplays: Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Every Man For Himself and God Against All & Land of Silence and Darkness ( translated by Alan Greenberg & Martje Herzog ; Tanam, New York, ISBN 0-934378-03-7 )

* When a Man Loves ( 1927 ), directed by Alan Crosland, with John Barrymore and Dolores Costello

* Alan Dean Foster's 1983 novel The Man Who Used the Universe follows the machinations of a similarly obsessive and morally neutral man ; however his ultimate goal is not immediately apparent.

CASS / Hawley Griffin's lyrics often contain references to themes and plot issues within Alan Moore's and H. G. Wells ' works, including but not restricted to The League of Extraordinary Gentleman series or The Invisible Man.

In July 1963, Dolphy and producer Alan Douglas arranged recording sessions for which his sidemen were among the leading emerging musicians of the day, and the results produced the albums Iron Man and Conversations.

In 1985, writer Alan Moore gave a somewhat darker glimpse into the world of Krypton in his story " For the Man Who Has Everything " ( in Superman Annual # 11 ), the premise being an elaborate dream of Superman's in which Krypton had not exploded and he'd grown to adulthood there.

* Alan Carr-comedian ( mentioned at the end of ' Chatty Man ' featuring Kylie Minogue, which aired on 1st June 2012 )

Pavo was featured in country music star Alan Jackson's video for his hit song " Little Man ", lamenting the decline of small town America.

Alan Walker, " The Orchestral Works ", Franz Liszt: The Man and His Music ( New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1970 ).

* 2008 Traditions and Transformations: Sounds of Silk Road Chicago – Miguel Harth-Bedoya and Alan Gilbert, conductors ; Silk Road Ensemble, Yo-Yo Ma and Wu Man, soloists ; David Frost, Tom Lazarus, and Christopher Willis, engineers ( CSO Resound )

" Measure of a Man " was written by Alan Menken and performed by Elton John.

* Alan Collins as Gardener's Man

* Froude the Historian: Victorian Man of Letters, Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1987

** “ The Random Man ,” written by Alan Grant, art by Carlos Ezquerra, in 2000 AD # 657 – 659 ( 1989 )

* Alan Barrie Spitzer, Historical Truth and Lies about the Past: Reflections on Dewey, Dreyfus, de Man, and Reagan ( University of North Carolina Press, 1996 ), ch.

On June 17, 2009 the Black Eyed Peas performed on the British TV chat show Alan Carr: Chatty Man.

On 18 July 1966 The Spectres signed a five-year deal with Piccadilly Records, releasing two singles that year, " I ( Who Have Nothing )" and " Hurdy Gurdy Man " ( written by Alan Lancaster ), and one the next year called "( We Ain't Got ) Nothin ' Yet " ( a song originally recorded by New York psychedelic band The Blues Magoos ).

* Alfred Nieman, " The Concertos ", in Robert Schumann: The Man and his Music, edited by Alan Walker ( London, 1972 )

* Alan Hale, Sr. in The Man in the Iron Mask ( 1939 )

DJs Jimmy Savile and Alan Freeman presented the first show, which featured ( in order ) The Rolling Stones with " I Wanna Be Your Man ", Dusty Springfield with " I Only Want to Be with You ", the Dave Clark Five with " Glad All Over ", The Hollies with " Stay ", The Swinging Blue Jeans with " Hippy Hippy Shake " and The Beatles with " I Want to Hold Your Hand ", that week's number one ( throughout its history, the programme always finished with the best-selling single of the week ).

The Scottish writer Alan Warner has written two novels in tribute to two different Can members ( Morvern Callar to Holger Czukay and The Man Who Walks to Michael Karoli respectively ).

* The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer ( 2005 ), a book by David Leavitt

* 1939: The Man in the Iron Mask-American black-and-white film directed by James Whale, starring Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William and Alan Hale ( as " Porthos ")

Other printed adaptations are Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Amulet of Power, a 2003 novel written by Mike Resnick ; Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Lost Cult, a 2004 novel written by E. E. Knight ; and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Man of Bronze, a 2005 novel written by James Alan Gardner.