In a news conference in London, officials of the esteemed Man Booker Prize have announced that the program, as rumored, will begin accepting entries from beyond its traditional range of the UK, the Republic of Ireland, and the Commonwealth. American authors and others working in English will be eligible for entry by their publishers.
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In his official statement, Jonathan Tyler, Chair of the Prize Foundation, calls this a “global expansion” and says that it will see the prize program “celebrate and embrace authors writing in English, whether from Chicago, Sheffield or Shanghai.”
