The Booker Prize is a prestigious British award given annually to a full-length novel in English. It was established in 1968 by Booker McConnell to provide a counterpart to the Prix Goncourt in France. The Booker Prize was first awarded in 1969, to P.H. Newby’s Something to Answer For. Initially, only English-language writers from the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and the Commonwealth countries were eligible. Since 2014, however, the prize has been open to English-language writers worldwide.
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