The Man Booker Prize, which we have sponsored since 2002, promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year.
The Man Booker Prize is the world's most important literary award and has the power to transform the fortunes of shortlisted books and their authors. The winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 was Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall.
The prize, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2008, aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. The Man Booker judges are selected from the finest critics, writers and academics to maintain the consistent excellence of the prize.
Man also sponsors the Man Booker International Prize which is unique in the world of literature in that it can be won by an author of any nationality, providing that his or her work is available in the English language. Since the award's launch in 2005, Ismail Kadaré, Chinua Achebe and Alice Munro have been named as recipients of the prize.
Man also sponsors the Man Asian Literary Prize, the premier annual award for a novel by an Asian author, written or translated into English. The Prize began in 2007, with the most recent recipient being Su Tong for his novel The Boat to Redemption.
