The Booker Prize turned 50 in 2018. Once dismissed as ‘posh bingo’ by Julian Barnes (but not after he himself won it), the Booker is one of the world’s leading literary prizes. Eleanor Catton, whose novel The Luminaries won the prize in 2013, discusses the importance of prizes to writers with Stuart
Kelly and Derek Johns. Stuart was a judge of the prize in 2013, and Derek is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Booker Foundation.
