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Booker Prize 2018
Why is it in news?
- Northern Irish author Anna Burns has won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for her novel 'Milkman', which is her third full-length novel.
- The book is about an 18-year-old girl, known as "middle sister", who is sexually harassed by an older paramilitary figure, called the "milkman".
- Anna Burns has become the first Northern Irish author to win the Man Booker prize.
Booker Prize
- The leading literary award in English, the Man Booker Prize was launched in 1969.
- It aims to promote the ‘finest in fiction’ and is awarded each year to the book adjudged as the best novel of the year written in English and published in the United Kingdom.
- The winner of The Man Booker Prize receives £50,000.
- Sponsored by Man Group, the foundation also awards £2,500 and a designer bound copy of their book to each of the six shortlisted authors.
- The winner and shortlisted authors are also guaranteed a worldwide readership as well as a dramatic spike in book sales.
- The judges of The Man Booker Prize are chosen from a wide range of disciplines including critics, writers, academics, poets, politicians, actors and ‘all with a passion for quality fiction’.
- Subject to widespread speculation before the official announcement, the prize usually brings the winner a huge boost in sales and profile.
Sources
The Hindu, Indian express