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Callil, Cartwright and Gekoski to judge Man Booker International
Publisher, writer and critic Carmen Callil and novelist Justin Cartwright will judge next year's Man Booker International Prize. The panel will be chaired by writer, academic and rare book dealer Dr...
White, Hazzard in running for 'Lost' Man Booker Prize
Novels by Australian authors Patrick White and Shirley Hazzard are among those in the running for a new Man Booker Prize. The Lost Man Booker Prize, announced on 1 February, is a one-off prize to...
Sci-fi author hits out at Booker judges
Sci-fi author Kim Stanley Robinson has criticised the Booker Prize judges, accusing them of "ignorance" in neglecting science fiction, which he called "the best British literature of ou...
Booker chair slams 'sloppy editing'
The chair of the judging panel for the Man Booker prize has heralded 2009 as a "vintage" year, despite criticising a number of submissions for their "sloppy editing". James Naughti...
'Curious Incident' tops Booker-winning sales in UK
Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Vintage) has sold more than 2 million copies in the UK since publication, topping a BookScan list of Booker-nominated titles....
Coetzee shortlisted for third Booker
Summertime by Australian author J M Coetzee (Knopf) has been shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The full shortlist is: The Children's Book (A S Byatt, Chatto & Windu...
Booker longlist boosts UK sales
Sales of the titles on the Man Booker Award longlist increased by 60% in the UK in the week following its announcement.
Alice Munro wins Booker International
Canadian short story writer Alice Munro has won the 60,000 pound ($121,000) Man Booker International Prize. The 77-year-old is the third author to win the biennial prize."I am totally amazed a...
Booker win boosts sales by 2000%
Winning the Man Booker Prize has seen UK sales for Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger jump 2000% week-on-week, from 383 copies to over 8000.
A 'lacklustre' year for the Booker shortlist
Well, The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga, Atlantic) may have won, but apparently Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies was the winner in terms of sales in the prize's home country in the lead up to the prize...
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