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The Booker Prize 1981
A book so good it won a Booker Prize three times. Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children went on to scoop the anniversary Booker of Bookers and The Best of the Booker prizes too.
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Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker is a musician and broadcaster from the north of England
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Sign up for free Booker Prize shortlist POS for bookshops
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Call in nominations for the Booker Prize 2025
Submissions are now closed
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The UEA Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship
In 2009, the Booker Prize Foundation and the University of East Anglia came together to create the UEA Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. It has been awarded ever since.
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Quiz: Can you guess which Booker-nominated books these first lines are from?
First lines grab the reader’s attention and help set the tone for the rest of the novel. Test your knowledge on these opening words and see if you can match them to their famous titles
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Entering the Booker Prizes
Submissions for the Booker Prize 2025 are now closed
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Margaret Busby
Margaret Busby is an independent editor, writer, broadcaster and critic.
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David Boyd
David Boyd is Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in the USA
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The ultimate Booker Prize shortlist quiz: 55 years of facts, firsts, and feats
Think you can distinguish Booker Prize fact from fiction? Test your knowledge in our quiz, which celebrates over half a century of unforgettable shortlists