Booker Prize winners - a quick rewind and Man Booker International Prize

Booker / Man Booker Prize Winners [2010-2013]

Year	Winner	Book
2010	Howard Jacobson	The Finkler Question
2011	Julian Barnes	The Sense of an Ending
2012	Hilary Mantel	Bring Up the bodies
2013	Eleanor Catton	The Luminaries

Indians who won Booker / Man Booker prize:

#	Winner	Year	Book
1	Salman Rushdie	1981	The Midnight’s Children
2	Arundhati Roy	1997	The God of Small Things
3	Kiran Desai	2006	Inheritance of Loss
4	Aravind Adiga	2008	White Tiger

•  In 1993 to mark the 25th anniversary it was decided to choose a Booker of Bookers Prize. The Prize was won by Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (1981 winner)
• In 2008, a similar prize known as The Best of the Booker was awarded. The winner was again Midnight’s Children.

Man Booker International Prize	Booker / Man Booker Prize
Open to all nationalities	Open only to writers from the Commonwealth, Ireland and Zimbabwe[But from 2014, it will consider authors from anywhere in the world, as long as their work is in English and published in the UK]
Awarded biennially	Awarded annually
The Man Booker International prize also allows for a separate award for translation	No such thing here
The award is a recognition of the writer's body of work, rather than any one title	The award is specific for a single book / title.

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