Booker Prize
It honors a novel written in English. This topic is part of Awards within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 5 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Booker Prize trivia questions
The Booker Prize is a major award for what?
Answer: Fiction
Bonus fact: It honors a novel written in English.
The Booker Prize is especially associated with what literary form?
Answer: Novel
Bonus fact: It is one of the world's best-known fiction prizes.
The Booker Prize is awarded for a novel originally written in what language?
Answer: English
Bonus fact: Eligible novels must be written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.
Which J. M. Coetzee novel won Britain's Booker Prize in 1983?
Answer: Life & Times of Michael K
Bonus fact: Coetzee's first book, Dusklands, was published in South Africa in 1974.
Which Chinua Achebe novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987?
Answer: Anthills of the Savannah
Bonus fact: Achebe later won the Man Booker International Prize in 2007 for his body of work.