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Booker Prize

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Booker Prize [ˈbʊkə]
n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) an annual prize for a work of British, Commonwealth, or Irish fiction of £50,000, awarded since 1969 by the Booker food-trading company. Official name from 2002 Man Booker Prize


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On Beauty was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in the United Kingdom in 2005, and as with her debut novel, White Teeth (Random House, 2000), Smith has created a modern-day tale in which the complexities that encompass the combination of race, class, faith and personal politics take center stage.
It includes critical pieces from Permanent Red; The Moment of Cubism (1969; released in the United States as The Sense of Sight); The Look of Things (1972); About Looking(1980); The White Bird (1985); and Keeping a Rendezvous (1992); as well as his scold of an acceptance speech for the Booker Prize.
 
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