(Note that there are 4 books written by Indian/Japanese authors who have won the Booker Prize, highlighted below.)
We endeavor to plan an edited volume of scholarly articles on Booker Prize Winning Writers of the World. This volume will also provide a platform for experts from various regions of the world to share, and exchange their views and try to unearth the most politically correct way to express ourselves in the present global society and mitigate various critical, sensitive and touchy issues crippling many academic deals signed and unsigned.
Man Booker Prize Winners
The winners for the Man Booker Prize are as follows:
2008: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (India)
2007: The Gathering by Anne Enright (Ireland)
2006: The Inheritence of Loss by Kiran Desai (India)
2005: The Sea by John Banville (Ireland)
2004: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (UK)
2003: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (Australia)
2002: Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Canada)
2001: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (Australia)
2000: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Canada)
1999: Disgrace by J.M. Coatzee (South Africa)
1998: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (UK)
1997: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (India)
1996: Last Orders by Graham Swift (UK)
1995: The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (UK)
1994: How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman (UK)
1993: Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (Ireland)
1992: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka) & Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (UK)
1991: The Famished Road by Ben Okri (Nigeria)
1990: Possession: A Romance by A. S. Bryant (UK)
1989: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (UK/Japan)
1988: Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (Australia)
1987: Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (UK)
1986: The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis (UK)
1985: The Bone People by Keri Hulme (New Zealand)
1984: Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner (UK)
1983: Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coatzee (South Africa)
1982: Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally (Australia)
1981: Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (India)
1980: Rites of Passage by William Golding (UK)
1979: Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (UK)
1978: The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (Ireland)
1977: Staying On by Paul Scott (UK)
1976: Saville by David Storey (UK)
1975: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (UK/Germany)
1974: The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) & Holiday by Stanley Middleton (UK)
1973: The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell (UK)
1972: G. by John Berger (UK)
1971: In A Free State by V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad/UK)
1970: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens (UK)
1969: Something to Answer For by P.H. Newby (UK)
Man Booker International Prize Winners
Besides the yearly Booker Prize the Foundation also awards the The Man Booker International Prize. The first Man Booker International Prize was founded in 2005. Here are the following winning authors:
ü 2005: Ismail Kadare (Albania)
ü 2007: Chinua Achebe (Nigerian)
ü 2009: Alice Munro (Canada)
The papers submitted should evince serious academic work contributing new knowledge or innovative critical perspectives on the subject explored. The editors reserve the right to make editorial changes and amendments in the final text.
The author’s name, institution and phone/mobile numbers should be mentioned in the title sheet with brief bio-data. Please don’t forget to mention email address—the most preferred & convenient medium of communication.
Only unpublished research papers/articles appended with a certificate that the article/paper is original & unpublished are solicited for publication. Contributors are requested that kindly send papers (limit in print b/w 20 to 25 pages only) in MS Word (Times New Roman- Font Size 12) upto 10th August 2010. Research papers/article should adhere to the Latest MLA Style formatting for references (example, Sharma 2004: 74); at the end of the paper arrange references alphabetically. Each contributor will get a complimentary copy of this book with esteem. Submissions are expected by email attachment along with a hard copy by SPEED POST please.
E-mail: write2aksaini@yahoo.co.in, write2saini@gmail.com
More information here.
We endeavor to plan an edited volume of scholarly articles on Booker Prize Winning Writers of the World. This volume will also provide a platform for experts from various regions of the world to share, and exchange their views and try to unearth the most politically correct way to express ourselves in the present global society and mitigate various critical, sensitive and touchy issues crippling many academic deals signed and unsigned.
Man Booker Prize Winners
The winners for the Man Booker Prize are as follows:
2008: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (India)
2007: The Gathering by Anne Enright (Ireland)
2006: The Inheritence of Loss by Kiran Desai (India)
2005: The Sea by John Banville (Ireland)
2004: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (UK)
2003: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (Australia)
2002: Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Canada)
2001: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (Australia)
2000: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (Canada)
1999: Disgrace by J.M. Coatzee (South Africa)
1998: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (UK)
1997: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (India)
1996: Last Orders by Graham Swift (UK)
1995: The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (UK)
1994: How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman (UK)
1993: Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle (Ireland)
1992: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka) & Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (UK)
1991: The Famished Road by Ben Okri (Nigeria)
1990: Possession: A Romance by A. S. Bryant (UK)
1989: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (UK/Japan)
1988: Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey (Australia)
1987: Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively (UK)
1986: The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis (UK)
1985: The Bone People by Keri Hulme (New Zealand)
1984: Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner (UK)
1983: Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coatzee (South Africa)
1982: Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally (Australia)
1981: Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (India)
1980: Rites of Passage by William Golding (UK)
1979: Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald (UK)
1978: The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (Ireland)
1977: Staying On by Paul Scott (UK)
1976: Saville by David Storey (UK)
1975: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (UK/Germany)
1974: The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) & Holiday by Stanley Middleton (UK)
1973: The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell (UK)
1972: G. by John Berger (UK)
1971: In A Free State by V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad/UK)
1970: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens (UK)
1969: Something to Answer For by P.H. Newby (UK)
Man Booker International Prize Winners
Besides the yearly Booker Prize the Foundation also awards the The Man Booker International Prize. The first Man Booker International Prize was founded in 2005. Here are the following winning authors:
ü 2005: Ismail Kadare (Albania)
ü 2007: Chinua Achebe (Nigerian)
ü 2009: Alice Munro (Canada)
The papers submitted should evince serious academic work contributing new knowledge or innovative critical perspectives on the subject explored. The editors reserve the right to make editorial changes and amendments in the final text.
The author’s name, institution and phone/mobile numbers should be mentioned in the title sheet with brief bio-data. Please don’t forget to mention email address—the most preferred & convenient medium of communication.
Only unpublished research papers/articles appended with a certificate that the article/paper is original & unpublished are solicited for publication. Contributors are requested that kindly send papers (limit in print b/w 20 to 25 pages only) in MS Word (Times New Roman- Font Size 12) upto 10th August 2010. Research papers/article should adhere to the Latest MLA Style formatting for references (example, Sharma 2004: 74); at the end of the paper arrange references alphabetically. Each contributor will get a complimentary copy of this book with esteem. Submissions are expected by email attachment along with a hard copy by SPEED POST please.
E-mail: write2aksaini@yahoo.co.in, write2saini@gmail.com
More information here.
