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Excavating Historical Origin and Selection Process of Booker Awards


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1 Department of English, Singhania University, Pacheri Bari, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, India
2 Department of English and Communication Skills, TIT&S, Bhiwani, Haryana, India
     

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Great honour has been bestowed to the people who dare to stand aloof from the crowd of their fellow human beings based on the kind of accolades and honour they achieve based on either exhibiting their physical prowess or their visionary and extraordinary intellectual proficiency displaying academic excellence and leadership in their respective domains. In the field of literature Booker Awards have been the third most attractive award being conferred in literature after Nobel and Pulitzer prizes. This study attempts to excavate the historical origin, the glorious tradition and selection parameters of Booker Awards. The highlighted information will enable the modern day aspiring authors and budding literary talents to have authentic resourceful valuable clues with regards to highly prestigious tradition of this award.

Keywords

Booker Awards, Changing Trends, Glorious Tradition of Literary History, Civilization, ICT, Creativity, Innovation, Booker Prix.
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Authors

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Department of English, Singhania University, Pacheri Bari, Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, India
Sudhir Narayan Singh
Department of English and Communication Skills, TIT&S, Bhiwani, Haryana, India

Abstract


Great honour has been bestowed to the people who dare to stand aloof from the crowd of their fellow human beings based on the kind of accolades and honour they achieve based on either exhibiting their physical prowess or their visionary and extraordinary intellectual proficiency displaying academic excellence and leadership in their respective domains. In the field of literature Booker Awards have been the third most attractive award being conferred in literature after Nobel and Pulitzer prizes. This study attempts to excavate the historical origin, the glorious tradition and selection parameters of Booker Awards. The highlighted information will enable the modern day aspiring authors and budding literary talents to have authentic resourceful valuable clues with regards to highly prestigious tradition of this award.

Keywords


Booker Awards, Changing Trends, Glorious Tradition of Literary History, Civilization, ICT, Creativity, Innovation, Booker Prix.

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