All the authors writing in English may now be eligible for the Man Booker Prize from 2014, organisers have confirmed.
Jonathan Taylor, chair of the Booker Prize Foundation, said that they are abandoning the constraints of geography and national boundaries, the BBC reported.
Currently, work by writers from the Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe are the only ones that are considered for the 50,000-pound-prize.
The Booker Foundation said that the expanded prize is going to recognise, celebrate and embrace authors writing in English, whether from Chicago, Sheffield or Shanghai.
