Booker Prize Quiz

The Booker Prize was originally established in 1969 by Booker-McConnell. It aimed to recognize the best original novel written in English and published in the UK.

Since 2019, the prize is officially called the Booker Prize for Fiction, following the end of the Man Group sponsorship.

P.H. Newby won the inaugural Booker Prize in 1969 for his novel Something to Answer For.

The Booker Prize was founded by Booker-McConnell, a British food distribution company, not a publisher.

The Man Booker International Prize, now known as the International Booker Prize, is awarded for a book translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.

The first author to win the Booker Prize twice was J.M. Coetzee. He won his first Booker Prize in 1983 for Life & Times of Michael K and his second in 1999 for Disgrace

J.G. Farrell won the special "Lost Man Booker Prize" posthumously for his novel Troubles. This award was created by the Booker Prize Foundation in 2010, 30 years after his death, to recognize the novel published in 1970. The prize was chosen by public vote from a list of 22 novels published that year.

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie was not a Booker Prize winner, though his Midnight’s Children did win.

There is no official trophy for the Booker Prize; the award is primarily monetary and honorary.

Yann Martel won the Booker Prize for Life of Pi, which was later adapted into an Oscar-winning film.