The Booker Prize and Nobel winners

Study note

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded each year for the best novel by an author from the Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe, and has been given since 1968. Several British writers have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, including the novelist Sir William Golding, the poet Seamus Heaney and the playwright Harold Pinter.

Memory tip: Booker Prize (since 1968): best novel; Nobel winners include Golding, Heaney, Pinter.