Man Booker Prize for Fiction

British literary prize of £50,000 awarded annually (from 1969) to a Commonwealth or Irish for a novel published in the UK during the previous year. The prize is one of the world's most prestigious literary awards.

The award was established by the Booker McConnell cash-and-carry company in 1968, and the first recipient of the prize in 1969 was P H Newby for Something to Answer For. Other notable winners have included V S Naipaul (1971), Iris Murdoch (1978), William Golding (1980), Salman Rushdie (1981), Kingsley Amis (1986), and Margaret Atwood (2000). In 2002 the title sponsor became the Man Group financial services firm.