15 Facts About Booker Prize

The winner of the Booker Prize receives international publicity which usually leads to a sales boost.

Sister prize, the International Booker Prize, is awarded for a book translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.

The rules of the Booker Prize changed in 1971; previously, it had been awarded retrospectively to books published prior to the year in which the award was given.

The Booker Prize Foundation announced in January 2010 the creation of a special award called the "Lost Man Booker Prize", with the winner chosen from a longlist of 22 novels published in 1970.

Booker Prize blamed Booker's 130 years of sugar production in the Caribbean for the region's modern poverty.

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Booker Prize's was one of two books considered likely to win, the other being Rites of Passage by William Golding.

Choice of James Kelman's book How Late It Was, How Late as 1994 Booker Prize winner proved to be one of the most controversial in the award's history.

Carmen Callil, chair of the previous year's Booker Prize judges, called it an "execrable" book and said on television that it should not even have been on the shortlist.

Booker Prize created a permanent home for the archives from 1968 to present at Oxford Brookes University Library.

Historically, the winner of the Booker Prize had been required to be a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Republic of Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

Evaristo's win marked the first time the Booker Prize had been awarded to a black woman, while Atwood's win, at 79, made her the oldest winner.

Strongman wrote that most of the books that have won the Booker Prize have in some way been concerned with the legacy of the British Empire, with many of the prize winners having engaged in imperial nostalgia.

In 2006, the Man Booker Prize set up a "Best of Beryl" prize, for the author Beryl Bainbridge, who had been nominated five times and yet failed to win once.

Similarly, The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to celebrate the prize's 40th anniversary.

Russian version of the Booker Prize was created in 1992 called the Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize, known as the Russian Booker Prize.