[MBP] The Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize [MBP]
Given annually since 1969
A heavy hitter among annual literary awards, only America’s Pulitzer and France’s Prix Goncourt are of greater prestige. That actually doesn’t mean much. No annual award is a great indicator of a book’s lasting literary merit and the Booker is no exception. It has a talent for awarding authors for their second or third best books (Coetzee, Golding, Naipaul, Kingsly Amis). But to be fair it has also picked some real winners (Schindler’s Ark, Midnight’s Children). Given my master list’s bias toward non-American authors, I am sure there are many excellent books that have won the [MLB] that I have never heard of.
Click here to see all the Man Booker winners. Works listed below in RED appear on the Master List.
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