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|James Gordon 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_||
|rowspan=2|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)_||
|rowspan=2|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_||
|2023|Paul Lynch|Ireland|_Prophet Song_||
|2024|Samantha Harvey|UK|_Orbital_||

## 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.