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New Era for Booker Prize
July 7 , 2026
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- The International Booker Prize has been renamed the Bukhman International Booker Prize after Bukhman Philanthropies committed funding for the next 10 years.
- The winner's prize money has been doubled from £50,000 to £100,000, to be shared equally between the author and translator.
- The prize recognises the best translated fiction published in English in the United Kingdom (UK) or Ireland.
- Bukhman Philanthropies, founded by Daria Bukhman and Dmitri Bukhman, will support the prize until 2036.
- The prize began in 2005 as the Man Booker International Prize, became an annual award in 2016, and was renamed the International Booker Prize in 2019.
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