Booker Prize

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Recently, David Szalay won the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel ‘Flesh’ becoming the first Hungarian-British author to win one of top awards in the English-speaking world. 

About Booker Prize

• It is the world’s leading literary award for a single work of fiction.
• It was founded in the UK in 1969, the Booker Prize initially rewarded Commonwealth writers and now spans the globe: it is open to anyone regardless of origin.
• It aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written in English.

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Eligibility for Booker Prize

• The Booker Prize awards any novel originally written in English and published in the UK and Ireland in the year of the prize, regardless of the nationality of their author.
• The novel must be an original work in English (not a translation)
• It must be published by a registered UK or Irish imprint; self-published novels are not eligible.
• The winner receives £50,000 and each of the shortlisted authors will be given £2,500.

Booker Prize Laureates from India and Indian-Origin Writers 

• VS Naipaul for Free State
• Salman Rushdie for Midnight’s Children
• Arundhati Roy for The God of Small Things
• Kiran Desai for The Inheritance of Loss (2006),
• Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger (2008).

Source: DD News