To be or not to be a Booker

It must be nice to be an oil-rich country in the Middle East. Whatever you want, you get. Just buy it. Your country's novelists can't compete for the prestigious Booker Award because their books aren't in English? Don't pay for translations, buy a Booker for them! It's capitalism at its best as the UK Guardian reported in Existential crisis novel wins first 'Arabic Booker'. What's next? A Pulitzer, Nobel?