Booker Prize
Winners
In 1971, the nature of the Prize was changed so that it was awarded to novels published in that year instead of in the previous year; therefore, no novel published in 1970 could win the Booker Prize.

Booker Prize

Section Title: Winners
Table Section Text: In 1971, the nature of the Prize was changed so that it was awarded to novels published in that year instead of in the previous year; therefore, no novel published in 1970 could win the Booker Prize.

Year	Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country

1969	P. H. Newby	Something to Answer For	Novel	United Kingdom

1970	Bernice Rubens	The Elected Member	Novel	United Kingdom

1970 (retrospective award)	J. G. Farrell	Troubles	Novel	United Kingdom Ireland

1971	V. S. Naipaul	In a Free State	Novel	United Kingdom Trinidad and Tobago

1972	John Berger	G.	Experimental novel	United Kingdom

1973	J. G. Farrell	The Siege of Krishnapur	Novel	United Kingdom Ireland

1974	Nadine Gordimer	The Conservationist	Novel	South Africa

Stanley Middleton	Holiday	Novel	United Kingdom

1975	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Heat and Dust	Historical novel	United Kingdom Germany

1976	David Storey	Saville	Novel	United Kingdom

1977	Paul Scott	Staying On	Novel	United Kingdom

1978	Iris Murdoch	The Sea, the Sea	Philosophical novel	Ireland United Kingdom

1979	Penelope Fitzgerald	Offshore	Novel	United Kingdom

1980	William Golding	Rites of Passage	Novel	United Kingdom

1981	Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children	Magic realism	United Kingdom

1982	Thomas Keneally	Schindler's Ark	Biographical novel	Australia

1983	J. M. Coetzee	Life & Times of Michael K	Novel	South Africa

1984	Anita Brookner	Hotel du Lac	Novel	United Kingdom

1985	Keri Hulme	The Bone People	Mystery novel	New Zealand

1986	Kingsley Amis	The Old Devils	Comic novel	United Kingdom

1987	Penelope Lively	Moon Tiger	Novel	United Kingdom

1988	Peter Carey	Oscar and Lucinda	Historical novel	Australia

1989	Kazuo Ishiguro	The Remains of the Day	Historical novel	United Kingdom

1990	A. S. Byatt	Possession	Historical novel	United Kingdom

1991	Ben Okri	The Famished Road	Magic realism	Nigeria

1992	Michael Ondaatje	The English Patient	Historiographic metafiction	Canada

Barry Unsworth	Sacred Hunger	Historical novel	United Kingdom

1993	Roddy Doyle	Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha	Novel	Ireland

1994	James Kelman	How Late It Was, How Late	Stream of consciousness	United Kingdom

1995	Pat Barker	The Ghost Road	War novel	United Kingdom

1996	Graham Swift	Last Orders	Novel	United Kingdom

1997	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things	Novel	India

1998	Ian McEwan	Amsterdam	Novel	United Kingdom

1999	J. M. Coetzee	Disgrace	Novel	South Africa

2000	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin	Historical novel	Canada

2001	Peter Carey	True History of the Kelly Gang	Historical novel	Australia

2002	Yann Martel	Life of Pi	Fantasy and adventure novel	Canada

2003	DBC Pierre	Vernon God Little	Black comedy	Australia

2004	Alan Hollinghurst	The Line of Beauty	Historical novel	United Kingdom

2005	John Banville	The Sea	Novel	Ireland

2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss	Novel	India

2007	Anne Enright	The Gathering	Novel	Ireland

2008	Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger	Novel	India

2009	Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall	Historical novel	United Kingdom

2010	Howard Jacobson	The Finkler Question	Comic novel	United Kingdom

2011	Julian Barnes	The Sense of an Ending	Novel	United Kingdom

2012	Hilary Mantel	Bring Up the Bodies	Historical novel	United Kingdom

2013	Eleanor Catton	The Luminaries	Historical novel	New Zealand

2014	Richard Flanagan	The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Historical novel	Australia

2015	Marlon James	A Brief History of Seven Killings	Historical/experimental novel	Jamaica

2016	Paul Beatty	The Sellout	Satirical novel	United States of America

2017	George Saunders	Lincoln in the Bardo	Historical/experimental novel	United States of America

2018	Anna Burns	Milkman	Novel	United Kingdom Northern Ireland

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In 1997, Arundhati Roy awarded as The God of Small Things.

final_sentence: In 1997, Arundhati Roy awarded as The God of Small Things.