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    Booker Prize urged to consider changing name over slavery link

    by Shahana Yasmin Apr 26, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: Booker Prize

    Radio 1Xtra host Richie Brave has said the Booker Prize, awarded since 1969 for the best work of fiction in English, should consider a name change because of links to slavery.

    Brave revealed that his legal surname was Booker and that his ancestors were enslaved by George and Josias Booker, the founders of the company that later went on to sponsor the prize.

    “I hope that Booker will start asking themselves some questions around the name,” he told The Guardian.

    “That name was inflicted upon us. As

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