The Booker Prize in literature is not much money, but it is widely esteemed.
The author won the Booker Prize in 2012 and the Costa Book of the year in 2013.
Ian McEwan and Peter Carey head the shortlist for the Booker prize, the literary world's most prestigious award.
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Banville is the first Irish winner of the Booker Prize since Roddy Doyle won with Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha in 1993.
The writer, who won the Booker Prize last year, also received the Costa Book of the Year for the novel in January.
The Book of Evidence was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1989.
Earlier this month, the novel, which deals with the personal and political aftermath of India's independence, won the Best of the Booker prize.
His 1994 follow-up novel, The Folding Star, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
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The newspaper suggests the film's inability to find a distributor may be because the Booker Prize-winning novel was critical of former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi.
There were fears that the film may not be released in India because the Booker Prize-winning novel was critical of former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi.
Wimbledon, a MacArthur "Genius" grant, "Project Runway, " "The Price is Right, " the Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest, the Booker Prize or a Grammy for best spoken-word album.
Also shortlisted were contributions from actor Richard E Grant, US prosecutor Kenneth Starr for the Starr Report and former Home Secretary, Lord Hurd, who this year chaired the judging panel of the Booker Prize.
The Caine Prize was started by the late businessman Sir Michael Caine who ran the Booker prize for many years, and the prize defines an "African writer" as one born on the continent who addresses African issues.
The general prize is often referred to as the "Booker prize for science writing", although the science prize winner often outsells its better-known counterpart.
In this novel, short-listed for the Man Booker prize, the author insinuates himself under the skin of Henry James, covering not only the known episodes in the literary lion's life, but also imagining the darker corners.
Unlike Amsterdam, which won him the 1998 Booker prize, most reviewers think this is the product of a great writer at the peak of his skills.
The Man Booker Prize, which is open to writers from the UK, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland, announces its 2013 winner in October.
In this year's winner of the Man Booker prize, a shy Henry James-loving leech moves into the house of a Tory politician and immerses himself in gay sex.
The Orange Prize was set in 1996 by a group of journalists, publishers and writers who were dismayed when the 1991 Booker prize shortlist contained no women writers.
Mantel, whose novel is part of a trilogy about Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell, already holds the record for being the first woman and the first living British author to win the Man Booker Prize twice.
With so many "big" books on the shortlist and well-known favourites like Julian Barnes, Zadie Smith and Kazuo Ishiguro, it was quite exciting to see John Banville slink off with the Man Booker Prize last night.
Howard Jacobson has won the 2010 Man Booker Prize for fiction for his book The Finkler Question.
American writer Lydia Davis has been awarded the Man Booker International prize for her "achievement in fiction on the world stage".
The book was previously shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, which eventually went to Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies.
Others in literature on the list include Booker Prize-winning author Penelope Lively, 78, who is made a dame.
Winterhart is up against Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies, winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize, as well as Stephen May's Life!
Stevens is currently filming the third series of Downton Abbey and is on the judging panel for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
It is Hilary Mantel's second award for Bring Up The Bodies, a historical novel about Thomas Cromwell, which also won the 2012 Man Booker Prize.
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