Oct 13 (Reuters) - Here are some key facts about the Man Booker prize, Britain's best-known literature award which this year marks its 40th anniversary. The Booker, renamed the Man Booker Prize in 2002 after its new sponsor, rewards the best novel of the last 12 months written by an author from Britain, Ireland or the Commonwealth group of mostly former British colonies. The award is judged by a panel that includes a literary critic, an academic, a literary editor and a novelist. The Booker went global in June 2005 with the addition of a prize every two years for any work of fiction available in English. The 60,000 pound ($112,000) inaugural Man Booker International prize was won by Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. Briton P. H. Newby won the inaugural Booker for "Something to Answer For." South African Nobel laureate J.M....
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