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The Booker Prize Archive

The Booker Prize Archive has been held at Oxford Brookes University Library since 2003. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is an annual prize open to any novel from the Commonwealth and the Republic of Ireland. The Booker Prize was first awarded in 1969, it became the Man Booker Prize in 2002. Past winners include V S Naipaul, Iris Murdoch, William Golding, Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey, Arundhati Roy, Ian McEwan and John Banville.

The Archive, which encompasses the administrative history of the Prize from 1968 to date, collects together a diverse range of material, including correspondence, publicity material, copies of both the Longlists and the Shortlists, minutes of meetings, photographs, material relating to the awards dinner (letters of invitation, guest lists, seating plans). Embargoes of ten or twenty years apply to certain categories of material, examples include all material relating to the judging process and the Longlist prior to 2002.

Catalogue records exist for material from 1968 - 1998, cataloguing is ongoing. The Archive is available for consultation in the Special Collections Reading Room.

Complementary material held by Oxford Brookes includes manuscripts donated by the family of inaugaral Prize winner P.H. Newby and the First Chapter Series donated by Oak Tree Press.