The Booker Prize

The Booker Prize was first awarded in 1969. Its aim was to stimulate the reading and discussion of contemporary fiction, in the hope that newly published work would eventually become as central to Anglophone culture as Francophone fiction was to France, thanks to the Prix Goncourt. The present-day Booker Prize Foundation was established in 2002, the point at which Booker ceased to fund the prize and the Man Group took over as sponsor. In 2019 a new sponsor, Crankstart, announced it would fund the prize for five years and the award title was changed to "The Booker Prize".