{"id":6290,"count":24,"description":"The Booker Prize shortlist is an excellent indicator of the best fiction published in English in the last year. Second in prestige perhaps only to the Nobel Prize for Literature<\/a>, it is awarded each year to the best original novel written in the English language.\r\n\r\nSeveral years ago in a controversial change, the Booker's eligibility expanded to include all <\/em>books in the English language\u2014not just those written by authors from the United Kingdom Commonwealth, Ireland, South Africa and Zimbabwe, as had previously been the case.\r\n\r\nThe Booker's sister award, the Booker International Prize, is given annually to a work of fiction in English translation\u2014with its \u00a350,000 prize money split between author and translator. The 2023 International Booker Prize was won by Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov with Time Shelter<\/em><\/a>.\r\n\r\nMost years, we interview the chair of both judging panels to discuss the shortlisted titles ahead of the winner.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/books\/booker-prize\/","name":"The Booker Prizes","slug":"booker-prize","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/6290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=6290"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?tags=6290"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?tags=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}