1. booker - Noun
2. Booker - Proper noun
One who enters accounts or names, etc., in a book; a bookkeeper.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPeople aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. Kazuo Ishiguro
You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible. Anne Enright
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached. C. L. R. James
Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation. C. L. R. James
Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race. Ian McEwan
The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant. Edward St Aubyn