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Yann Martel on winning the Man Booker Prize for Life of Pi, October 2002.
© Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty ImagesMan Booker winner Hilary Mantel in 2012 after winning for Bring up the Bodies.
© Janie AireyEleanor Catton, 2013 Man Booker Prize winner with her book, The Luminaries.
© Janie Airey/Booker Prize FoundationMargaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo, joint winners of the Booker Prize 2019, at the award ceremony 14 October 2019
Arundhati Roy, winner of the 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things.
Courtesy Oxford Brookes ArchiveThe Man Booker Prize 50 festival, at the Southbank Centre in London 2018, opened with James Naughtie discussing historical fiction with literary giants Hilary Mantel and Pat Barker
Douglas Stuart speaks at The 2020 Booker Prize Awards Ceremony, broadcast in partnership with the BBC, at the Roundhouse in London
© David Parry/PA WireThe 2021 winner was Damon Galgut with The Promise.
The morning after the announcement, the book was number one on Amazon’s bestseller chart. Two weeks after the win, Chatto & Windus announced that it had reprinted 153,000 copies of The Promise, having sold 23,878 copies in hardback, 14,622 of which sold in the two weeks following the news – a 1,925% jump in volume compared with the previous two weeks.
According to The Bookseller, In the 12 weeks after his win, Galgut sold more copies of his books that he did in the previous 17 years since first being published in the UK. Rights to The Promise have now been sold in 35 territories and it has been a bestseller in Germany and Greece.
Winning author Damon Galgut at the 2021 Booker Prize Awards Ceremony.
© David Parry/PAChinua Achebe’s pre-recorded acceptance speech for the Man Booker International 2007 prize.
© Booker Prize Foundation2016 International Booker Prize winners Han Kang and Deborah Smith
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