Booker Prize urged to rethink name over slavery connection

The prize’s connections to slavery have been highlighted before, the Guardian reported, most prominently when the 1972 Booker winner, John Berger, used his acceptance speech to announce his intention to “turn this prize against itself” and donate half of his winnings to the British Black Panther movement.

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