Booker Prize is today one of the most famous and respectable literary prizes in the world. Its sincerety in judging the authors and their creative works can be gauged by the fact that many of its awardees were later given Nobel Prize for literature. Yet despite this, little is known about the Booker Prize was set up in 1968 by the Booker Bros. The Booker at that time had highly profitable author’s division which published a galaxy of renowned writers including Agatha Christie, Dennis Weatley, Georgette Heyer and Herold Pinter. This book contains the Booker Prize winning novelists since the very beginning in 1968 to 2002, their prize-winning novels and other works. This book is meant to serve as a ready reference to the university students, research scholars and aspiring writers. Each chapter contains author’s brief biography, bibliography containing all his writings, theatrical, TV and celluloid works etc., introduction to the prize-winning novels and even other works.
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