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The Booker Prize Foundation announces the creation of the Children's Booker Prize, with the first £50,000 (US$66,500) winner to be announced in early 2027.
2025-10-24

English novelist Samantha Harvey wins the Booker Prize for her novel "Orbital".
2024-11-12

Irish writer Paul Lynch wins the Booker Prize for his novel "Prophet Song".
2023-11-26

12 people, including Booker Prize-nominated author Tsitsi Dangarembga, are released from detention by Zimbabwean authorities for participating in anti-government protests in the capital of Harare yesterday. They are to return for trials on September 18.
2020-08-1

Writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the only person to have won both an Academy Award and a Booker Prize, dies at the age of 85.
2013-04-3

Nina Bawden, the writer of seminal work "Carrie's War" and shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987 and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010, dies at her London home.
2012-08-22

Booker Prize winning writer of historical fiction Barry Unsworth dies in Italy.
2012-06-8