Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, 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		Something to Answer For
1970	Bernice Rubens		The Elected Member
1971	V S Naipaul	Trinidad and Tobago/	In a Free State
1972	John Berger		G
1973	J G Farrell		The Siege of Krishnapur
1974	Nadine Gordimer Stanley Middleton	South Africa/	The Conservationist Holiday
1975	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	/Germany	Heat and Dust
1976	David Storey		Saville
1977	Paul Scott		Staying On
1978	Iris Murdoch	Ireland/	The Sea, the Sea
1979	Penelope Fitzgerald		Offshore
1980	William Golding		Rites of Passage
1981	Salman Rushdie	/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		Hotel du Lac
1985	Keri Hulme	New Zealand	the bone people
1986	Kingsley Amis		The Old Devils
1987	Penelope Lively		Moon Tiger
1988	Peter Carey	Australia	Oscar and Lucinda
1989	Kazuo Ishiguro	/Japan	The Remains of the Day
1990	A S Byatt		Possession: A Romance
1991	Ben Okri	Nigeria	The Famished Road
1992	Michael Ondaatje Barry Unsworth	Sri Lanka/Canada/	The English Patient Sacred Hunger
1993	Roddy Doyle	Ireland	Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1994	James Kelman		How Late It Was, How Late
1995	Pat Barker		The Ghost Road
1996	Graham Swift		Last Orders
1997	Arundhati Roy	India	The God of Small Things
1998	Ian McEwan		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		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		Wolf Hall
2010	Howard Jacobson		The Finkler Question
2011	Julian Barnes		The Sense of an Ending
2012	Hilary Mantel		Bring Up The Bodies

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.