How to win the Booker prize – in charts

What does it take to make a Man Booker prize winner? Adam Frost and James Kynvin look at more than 40 years' worth of data to find the formula for Man Booker success

• Adam Frost, design by James Kynvin
• guardian.co.uk,
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Winners of the Booker prize by gender

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Full story and all charts at The Guardian

• DATA: download the spreadsheet behind these charts

Footnote:

As The Bookman writes this it is 6.05 am here in NZ so 6.05 pm last night in London. Sometime in the next 4-5 hours I should receive the Man Booker result and will post it to the blog the minute I do.