Why is it in news?
- The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards, includes for the first time a novel told in Verse.
More in news
- The book, The Long Take, by poet Robin Robertson, mixes verse, prose and photographs to follow the story of a Second World War veteran across the United States in the golden era of Hollywood.
The Man Booker Prize
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The Man Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for five decades.
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The Man Booker Prizes reward the finest in fiction, highlighting great books to readers.
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As of 2016, the Man Booker International Prize will be awarded annually for a single book, translated into English and published in the UK.
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The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.
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From its inception, only novels written by Commonwealth, Irish, and South African (and later Zimbabwean) citizens were eligible to receive the prize;
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In 2014, however, this eligibility was widened to any English-language novel””a change which proved controversial.
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The prize was originally known as the Booker”“McConnell Prize, after the company Booker, McConnell Ltd began sponsoring the event in 1968.
Source
The Hindu