The Sellout by Paul Beatty has been named winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The 54-year-old is the first American author to win the prize in its 48-year history. US authors only became eligible in 2014. The ...

The shortlist for the Man Booker Prize 2016 has both a gender and racial balance. Three of the six nominees are men and three women. The list features an African-American, American-Iranian, and Canadian writer of Malaysian-Chinese parentage. So who are ...

The shortlist for the Man Booker Prize 2015 was announced on Tuesday 15 September. This is only the second year the competition has been opened to writers of any nationality. Previously, the prize was open only to authors from the ...

PRESS RELEASE: “The longlist, or ‘Man Booker Dozen’, for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize is announced today, Wednesday 29 July 2015. This year’s longlist of 13 books was selected by a panel of five judges chaired by Michael Wood, and ...