Booker Prize
The Booker Prize, known in the past as the Man Booker Prize and the Booker Prize for Fiction, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland.
To win the Booker Prize generally means to gain international success.
Booker Prize winners
| Year | Author | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | P. H. Newby | UK | Something to Answer For |
| 1970 | Bernice Rubens | UK | The Elected Member |
| 1971 | V. S. Naipaul | Trinidad and Tobago/UK | In a Free State |
| 1972 | John Berger | UK | G |
| 1973 | James Gordon Farrell | UK | The Siege of Krishnapur |
| 1974 | Nadine Gordimer Stanley Middleton |
South Africa/UK | The Conservationist Holiday |
| 1975 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | UK/Germany | Heat and Dust |
| 1976 | David Storey | UK | Saville |
| 1977 | Paul Scott | UK | Staying On |
| 1978 | Iris Murdoch | Ireland/UK | The Sea, the Sea |
| 1979 | Penelope Fitzgerald | UK | Offshore |
| 1980 | William Golding | UK | Rites of Passage |
| 1981 | Salman Rushdie | UK/India | Midnight's Children |
| 1982 | Thomas Keneally | Australia | Schindler's Ark |
| 1983 | J M Coetzee | South Africa/Australia | Life & Times of Michael K |
| 1984 | Anita Brookner | UK | Hotel du Lac |
| 1985 | Keri Hulme | New Zealand | the bone people |
| 1986 | Kingsley Amis | UK | The Old Devils |
| 1987 | Penelope Lively | UK | Moon Tiger |
| 1988 | Peter Carey | Australia | Oscar and Lucinda |
| 1989 | Kazuo Ishiguro | UK/Japan | The Remains of the Day |
| 1990 | A S Byatt | UK | Possession: A Romance |
| 1991 | Ben Okri | Nigeria | The Famished Road |
| 1992 | Michael Ondaatje | Sri Lanka/Canada | The English Patient |
| Barry Unsworth | UK | Sacred Hunger | |
| 1993 | Roddy Doyle | Ireland | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
| 1994 | James Kelman | UK | How Late It Was, How Late |
| 1995 | Pat Barker | UK | The Ghost Road |
| 1996 | Graham Swift | UK | Last Orders |
| 1997 | Arundhati Roy | India | The God of Small Things |
| 1998 | Ian McEwan | UK | Amsterdam |
| 1999 | J M Coetzee | South Africa/Australia | Disgrace |
| 2000 | Margaret Atwood | Canada | The Blind Assassin |
| 2001 | Peter Carey | Australia | True History of the Kelly Gang |
| 2002 | Yann Martel | Canada | Life of Pi |
| 2003 | DBC Pierre | Australia/Mexico | Vernon God Little |
| 2004 | Alan Hollinghurst | UK | The Line of Beauty |
| 2005 | John Banville | Ireland | The Sea |
| 2006 | Kiran Desai | India | The Inheritance of Loss |
| 2007 | Anne Enright | Ireland | The Gathering |
| 2008 | Aravind Adiga | India | The White Tiger |
| 2009 | Hilary Mantel | UK | Wolf Hall |
| 2010 | Howard Jacobson | UK | The Finkler Question |
| 2011 | Julian Barnes | UK | The Sense of an Ending |
| 2012 | Hilary Mantel | UK | Bring Up The Bodies |
| 2013 | Eleanor Catton | New Zealand | The Luminaries |
| 2014 | Richard Flanagan | Australia | The Narrow Road to the Deep North |
| 2015 | Marlon James | Jamaica | A Brief History of Seven Killings |
| 2016 | Paul Beatty | USA | The Sellout |
| 2017 | George Saunders | USA | Lincoln in the Bardo |
| 2018 | Anna Burns | UK | Milkman (novel) |
| 2019 | Margaret Atwood | Canada | The Testaments |
| Bernardine Evaristo | UK | Girl, Woman, Other | |
| 2020 | Douglas Stuart | USA/UK | Shuggie Bain |
| 2021 | Damon Galgut | South Africa | The Promise |
| 2022 | Shehan Karunatilaka | Sri Lanka | The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida |
| 2023 | Paul Lynch | Ireland | Prophet Song |
| 2024 | Samantha Harvey | UK | Orbital |
Other websites
- The official website of the Man Booker Prize
- The most honoured Booker shortlisted books
- A primer on the Man Booker Prize and critical review of literature. Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine