What is Bookers Award???

I've not heard of any Bookers Award but I have heard of the Booker Prize which is quite famous. Here's a little information about it. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Booker Prize, is one of the world's most prestigious literary prizes, awarded each year for the best original full-length novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland in the English language. A separate prize for which any living author in the world may qualify, the Man Booker International Prize, was inaugurated in 2005. A Russian version of the Booker Prize, the Russian Booker Prize, was created in 1992. The winner of the Man Booker will generally be assured of international fame and success. It is also a mark of distinction for authors to be nominated for the Booker longlist or shortlist. In 1993, the Booker of Bookers Prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner), as the best novel to win the award in the first 25 years of its existence. The winner of the 2006 prize, announced on 10 October, is Kiran Desai for The Inheritance of Loss (Kiran's mother Anita Desai has previously been shortlisted for the Booker). For a complete list of winning and shortlisted authors, see List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize after the company Booker-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968, and became commonly known as the "Booker Prize" or simply "the Booker". When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the investment company Man Group, which opted to retain "Booker" as part of the official title of the prize. The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £21,000, and was subsequently raised to £50,000 in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Man Group.