1. The Man Booker Prize is awarded to a citizen of British Commonwealth or to a citizen of Republic of Ireland.
2. Presently the Man Booker Prize is underwritten by a London based software company.
3. The winner of the Man Booker Prize in the year 2004 is a South Asian.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Correct Answer: (a) only 1
Solution:The Man Booker Prize, established in the year 1969, is an important literary prize in the English language in the world, awarded to citizens of the countries of the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. Statement - 1 is true. Currently, the Man Booker Awards sponsor is the Invest Company Man Group and not the London based software company. Hence statement-2 is wrong. The 2004 Man Booker Prize was presented to British citizen Allan Hollinghurst for his fourth novel, "The Line of Beauty" and not to a South Asian citizen. In 1997, Arundhati Roy of India was awarded for her work 'The God of Small Things', which is the winner of the South Asian Booker Prize. Consequently statement-3 is false. Thus the correct answer would be an option (a). Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have jointly awarded 2019 Booker Prize. Margaret received the award for her novel 'The Testaments' and Bernardine won Booker for her novel 'Girl, Women, Other'. Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka has won 'the Booker Prize 2022' for his second Novel "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida". The 2023 winner was Paul Lynch's Prophet Song.
