Booker Prize

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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.[source?]

To win the Booker Prize generally means to gain international success.

Booker Prize winners[change | change source]

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

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