{"id":9345,"date":"2025-11-11T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T06:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9345"},"modified":"2025-11-11T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:46:08","slug":"booker-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/booker-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Booker Prize Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, David Szalay won the 2025 Booker Prize for his novel \u2018Flesh\u2019 becoming the first Hungarian-British author to win one of top awards in the English-speaking world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Booker Prize<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the world\u2019s leading literary award for a <\/span><b>single work of fiction.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>founded in the UK in 1969,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Booker Prize initially rewarded Commonwealth writers and now spans the globe: it is <\/span><b>open to anyone regardless of origin.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It aims to promote the <\/span><b>finest in fiction<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by rewarding the best novel of the year written in English.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Eligibility for Booker Prize<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Booker Prize awards any <\/span><b>novel originally written in English<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>published in the UK<\/b> <b>and Ireland<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the year of the prize, regardless of the nationality of their author.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The novel must be an <\/span><b>original work in English<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (not a translation)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It must be published by a registered UK or Irish imprint; self-published novels are not eligible.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>winner receives \u00a350,000<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and each of the shortlisted <\/span><b>authors will be given \u00a32,500.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Booker Prize Laureates from India and Indian-Origin Writers\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>VS Naipaul<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for Free State<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Salman Rushdie<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for Midnight\u2019s Children<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Arundhati Roy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for The God of Small Things<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Kiran Desai<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for The Inheritance of Loss (2006),<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Aravind Adiga<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for The White Tiger (2008).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/hungarian-british-author-david-szalay-wins-booker-prize-for-flesh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DD News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Booker Prize is the world\u2019s leading literary award for a single work of fiction. 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