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Explained: This year's Booker Prize-winning novel Shuggie Bain, and its debutant author Douglas Stuart

November 22, 2020 2:00 pm

Shuggie Bain is an autobiographical novel set in Glasgow in the 1980s. It follows the life of Shuggie, an impoverished boy struggling to look after his single mother, Agnes, an alcoholic, even as he grapples with his own sexuality.

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Booker Prize Foundation abolishes Baroness Nicholson's role after backlash

June 25, 2020 2:25 pm

This comes after Damian Barr, along with other writers challenged Nicholson's presence in the Booker Foundation.

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Jury breaks rules, Booker Prize awarded jointly to Atwood and Evaristo; Rushdie misses out

October 15, 2019 9:54 am

The Booker rules say the prize must not be divided, but the judges insisted they "couldn't separate" Atwood's 'The Testament' and 'Girl, Woman, Other' by Evaristo, who is the first black woman to win the prestigious award since its creation in 1969.

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Novel prize list

September 22, 2018 4:10 am

This year’s shortlist for the Man Booker is dominated by women novelists, breaks genre boundaries.

South Korean writer Han Kang's 'The Vegetarian' wins Man Booker fiction prize

May 17, 2016 3:25 pm

Han Kang beat literary stars, including elusive Italian author Elena Ferrante and Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk for the £50,000 Man Booker fiction prize.

And the 2009 Booker goes to Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall

October 08, 2009 11:51 pm

Hilary Mantel won the 41st annual Man Booker Prize on Tuesday night for Wolf Hall,a historical novel about Henry VIIIs court centered on the kings adviser,Thomas Cromwell.