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	J G 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

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