Booker-verðlaunin

Booker-bókmenntaverðlaunin eru ein virtustu bókmenntarverðlaun heims og eru veitt á hverju ári rithöfundi sem er þegn Breska samveldisins eða Írlands. Booker fyrirtækið stofnaði til verðlaunanna árið 1968. Til að tryggja að einungis fyrsta flokks bækur séu valdar eru dómarar valdir úr einvalaliði gagnrýnenda, rithöfunda og háskólamanna. Síðan 2002 hafa verðlaunin gengið undir nafninu „Man Booker verðlaunin“, vegna stuðnings fjárfestingarfélagsins Man Group plc.. Rússnesk útgáfa verðlaunanna var sett á fót árið 1992.

Forval bókanna getur verið tvenns konar. Bókaútgefendur geta sent inn handrit, eða dómarar geta beðið um að ákveðin handrit eða bækur séu sendar inn. Árið 2003 voru 110 bækur sendar inn af útgefendum, en dómarar báðu um að 10 bókum væri bætt við það.

Verðlaunahafar
Hér fyrir neðan er listi yfir verðlaunahafa og tilnefningar til Booker-verðlaunanna. Nöfn verðlaunahafa eru tilgreind fremst fyrir hvert ár og feitletruð. Íslensk nöfn þeirra bóka sem komið hafa út á íslensku eru tilgreind aftan við upprunaleg nöfn.
 1969: Percy Howard Newby, Something to Answer For 
 Barry England, Figures in a Landscape
 Nicholas Mosley, Impossible Object
 Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good
 Muriel Spark, The Public Image
 G. M. Williams, From Scenes like These

 1970: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
 A. L. Barker, John Brown's Body
 Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout
 Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream
 William Trevor, Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
 T. W. Wheeler, The Conjunction

 1971: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, In a Free State
 Thomas Kilroy, The Big Chapel
 Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell
 Mordecai Richler, St Urbain's Horseman
 Derek Robinson, Goshawk Squadron
 Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

 1972: John Berger, G
 Susan Hill, Bird of Night
 Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
 David Storey, Pasmore

 1973: James Gordon Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
 Beryl Bainbridge, The Dressmaker
 Elizabeth Mavor, The Green Equinox
 Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince (Svarti prinsinn)

 1974: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist, og Stanley Middleton, Holiday
 Kingsley Amis, Ending Up
 Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing
 C. P. Snow, In Their Wisdom

 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
 Thomas Keneally, Gossip from the Forest

 1976: David Storey, Saville 
 André Brink, An Instant in the Wind
 R. C. Hutchinson, Rising
 Brian Moore, The Doctor's Wife
 Julian Rathbone, King Fisher Lives
 William Trevor, The Children of Dynmouth

 1977: Paul Scott, Staying On
 Paul Bailey, Peter Smart's Confessions
 Caroline Blackwood, Great Granny Webster
 Jennifer Johnston, Shadows on our Skin
 Penelope Lively, The Road to Lichfield
 Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn

 1978: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea (Hafið, hafið) 
 Kingsley Amis, Jake's Thing
 André Brink, Rumours of Rain
 Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
 Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks
 Bernice Rubens, A Five-Year Sentence

 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
 Thomas Kneally, Confederates
 Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, A Bend in the River
 Julian Rathbone, Joseph
 Fay Weldon, Praxis

 1980: William Golding, Rites of Passage 
 Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
 Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
 Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid
 Julian O'Faolain, No Country for Young
 Barry Unsworth, Pascali's Island
 J. L. Carr, A Month in the Country

 1981: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (Miðnæturbörn)
 Molly Keane, Good Behaviour
 Doris Lessing, The Sirian Experiments
 Ian McEwan, The Comfort of Strangers
 Ann Schlee, Rhine Journey
 Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent
 D. M. Thomas, The White Hotel

 1982: Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark (Listi Schindlers) 
 John Arden, Silence Among the Weapons
 William Boyd, An Ice-Cream War
 Lawrence Durrell, Constance or Solitary
 Alice Thomas Ellis, The 27th Kingdom
 Timothy Mo, Sour Sweet

 1983: J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K 
 Malcolm Bradbury, Rates of Exchange
 John Fuller, Flying to Nowhere
 Anita Mason, The Illusionist
 Salman Rushdie, Shame
 Graham Swift, Waterland

 1984: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac 
 J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
 Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
 Anita Desai, In Custody
 Penelope Lively, According to Mark
 David Lodge, Small World

 1985: Keri Hulme, The Bone People 
 Peter Carey, Illywhacker
 J. L. Carr, The Battle of Pollocks Crossing
 Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist
 Jan Morris, Last Letters from Hav
 Iris Murdoch, The Good Apprentice

 1986: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils 
 Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (Saga þernunnar)
 Paul Bailey, Gabriel's Lament
 Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone
 Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
 Timothy Mo, An Insular Possession

 1987: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger 
 Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
 Peter Ackroyd, Chatterton
 Nina Bawden, Circles of Deceit
 Brian Moore, The Colour of Blood
 Iris Murdoch, The Book and the Brotherhood

 1988: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda 
 Bruce Chatwin, Utz
 Penelope Fitzgerald, The Beginning of Spring
 David Lodge, Nice Work
 Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (Söngvar satans)
 Marina Warner, The Lost Father

 1989: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (Dreggjar dagsins) 
 Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye John Banville, The Book of Evidence Sybille Bedford, Jigsaw James Kelman, A Disaffection Rose Tremain, Restoration 1990: Antonia Susan Byatt, Possession 
 Beryl Bainbridge, An Awfully Big Adventure
 John McGahern, Amongst Women
 Brian Moore, Lies of Silence
 Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here

 1991: Ben Okri, The Famished Road 
 Martin Amis, Time's Arrow
 Roddy Doyle, The Van
 Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
 Timothy Mo, The Redundancy of Courage
 William Trevor, Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives)

 1992: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (Enski sjúklingurinn), og Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger 
 Christoper Hope, Serenity House
 Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy
 Ian McEwan, Black Dogs
 Michèle Roberts, Daughters of the House

 1993: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Paddy Clarke, ha, ha, ha) 
 Tibor Fisher, Under the Frog
 Michael Ignatieff, Scar Tissue
 David Malouf, Remembering Babylon
 Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River
 Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

 1994: James Kelman, How late it was, how late 
 Romesh Gunesekera, Reef
 Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise
 Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star
 George Mackay Brown, Beside the Ocean of Time
 Jill Paton Walsh, Knowledge of Angels

 1995: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road 
 Justin Cartwright, In Every Face I Meet
 Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh (Síðasta andvarp Márans)
 Barry Unsworth, Morality Play
 Tim Winton, The Riders

 1996: Graham Swift, Last Orders (Hestaskálin) 
 Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
 Beryl Bainbridge, Every Man for Himself
 Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark
 Shena Mackay, The Orchard on Fire
 Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

 1997: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (Guð hins smáa) Jim Crace, Quarantine
 Mick Jackson, The Underground Man
 Bernard MacLaverty, Grace Notes
 Tim Parks, Europa
 Madeline St John, The Essence of the Thing

 1998: Ian McEwan, Amsterdam (Amsterdam) 
 Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie
 Julian Barnes, England England
 Martin Booth, The Industry of Souls
 Patrick McCabe, Breakfast on Pluto
 Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts (Taumhald á skepnum)

 1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (Vansæmd) 
 Anita Desai, Fasting, Feasting
 Michael Frayn, Headlong
 Andrew O'Hagan, Our Fathers
 Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
 Colm Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship

 2000: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin 
 Trezza Azzopardi, The Hiding Place
 Michael Collins, The Keepers of Truth
 Kazuo Ishiguro, When we were Orphans (Veröld okkar vandalausra)
 Matthew Kneale, English Passengers
 Brian O'Doherty, The Deposition of Father McGeevy

 2001: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang Ian McEwan, Atonement (Friðþæging)
 Andrew Miller, Oxygen
 David Mitchell, [number9dream
 Rachel Seiffert, The Dark Room
 Ali Smith, Hotel World

 2002: Yann Martel, Life of Pi (Sagan af Pí)
 Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters
 Carol Shields, Unless
 William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault
 Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
 Tim Winton, Dirt Music

 2003: D.B.C. Pierre, Vernon God Little Monica Ali, Brick Lane
 Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
 Damon Galgut, The Good Doctor
 Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal
 Clare Morrall, Astonishing Splashes of Colour

 2004: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty Achmat Dangor, Bitter Fruit 
 Sarah Hall, The Electric Michelangelo 
 David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas 
 Colm Tóibín, The Master 
 Gerard Woodward, I'll Go to Bed at Noon

 2005: John Banville, The Sea Julian Barnes, Arthur & George
 Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way
 Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (Slepptu mér aldrei)
 Ali Smith, The Accidental
 Zadie Smith, On Beauty

 2006: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss Kate Grenville, The Secret River
 M. J. Hyland, Carry Me Down
 Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men
 Edward St Aubyn, Mother's Milk (novel)|Mother's Milk
 Sarah Waters, The Night Watch

 2007: Anne Enright, The Gathering Nicola Barker, Darkmans
 Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
 Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip
 Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach
 Indra Sinha,, Animal's People
 2008: Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
 Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies
 Linda Grant, The Clothes on Their Backs
 Philip Hensher, The Northern Clemency
 Steve Toltz, The Little Stranger
 2009: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall A. S. Byatt, The Children's Book
 J. M. Coetzee, Summertime
 Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze
 Simon Mawer, The Glass Room
 Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger
 2010: Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America
 Emma Donoghue, Room
 Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room
 Andrea Levy, The Long Song
 Tom McCarthy, C
 2011: Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending Carol Birch, Jamrach's Menagerie
 Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
 Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues
 Stephen Kelman, Pigeon English
 A D Miller, Snowdrops
 2012: Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists
 Deborah Levy, Swimming Home
 Alison Moore, The Lighthouse
 Will Self, Umbrella
 Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis
 2013: Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names
 Jim Crace, Harvest
 Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
 Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
 Colm Tóibín, The Testament of Mary
 2014: Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North Joshua Ferris, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
 Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
 Howard Jacobson, J
 Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others
 Ali Smith, How to Be Both
 2015: Marion James, A Brief History of Seven Killings Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
 Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread
 Tom McCarthy, Satin Island
 Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen
 Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways
 2016: Paul Beatty, The Sellout Deborah Levy, Hot Milk
 Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project
 Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen
 David Szalay, All That Man Is
 Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
 2017: George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo Paul Auster, 4321
 Fiona Mozley, Elmet
 Moshin Hamid, Exit West
 Emily Fridlund, History of Wolves
 Ali Smith, Autumn
 2018: Anna Burns, Milkman Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
 Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room
 Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
 Richard Powers, The Overstory
 Robin Robertson, The Long Take
 2019: Margaret Atwood, The Testaments	og Bernardine Evaristo,	Girl, Woman, Other Lucy Ellmann, Ducks, Newburyport
 Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities
 Salman Rushdie, Quichotte
 Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
 2020: Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain Diane Cook, The New Wilderness
 Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
 Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar
 Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
 Brandon Taylor, Real Life
 2021: Damon Galgut, The Promise'	
 Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This Nadifa Mohamed, The Fortune Men Richard Powers, Bewilderment	
 Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle''

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