Man Booker Prize for Fiction

     

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize founded in 1969, awarded each year for the best original novel, written in the English language and published in the UK. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.

     The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £21,000, and was subsequently raised to £50,000 in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Man Group, making it one of the world's richest literary prizes.

     In 1993, as part of the celebrations of 25 years of the prize, a so-called Booker of Bookers was awarded to Salman Rushdie for his novel Midnight’s Children, chosen as the best book to have won the prize in its first quarter of a century.

YEAR	AUTHOR	TITLE
1969	P. H. Newby	Something to Answer For (Novel)
1970	Bernice Rubens	The Elected Member (Novel)
1971	V. S. Naipaul	In a Free State (Short story)
1972	John Berger	G.(Experimental novel)
1973	J. G. Farrell	The Siege of Krishnapur (Novel)
1974	Nadine Gordimer	The Conservationist (Novel)
1974	Stanley Middleton	Holiday (Novel)
1975	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Heat and Dust (Historical novel)
1976	David Storey	Saville (Novel)
1977	Paul Scott	Staying On (Novel)
1978	Iris Murdoch	The Sea, the Sea (Philosophical novel)
1979	Penelope Fitzgerald	Offshore (Novel)
1980	William Golding	Rites of Passage (Novel)
1981	Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children (Magic realism)
1982	Thomas Keneally	Schindler's Ark (Biographical novel)
1983	J. M. Coetzee	Life & Times of Michael K (Novel)
1984	Anita Brookner	Hotel du Lac (Novel)
1985	Keri Hulme	The Bone People (Mystery novel)
1986	Kingsley Amis	The Old Devils(Comic novel)
1987	Penelope Lively	Moon Tiger ((Novel)
1988	Peter Carey	Oscar and Lucinda (Historical novel)
1989	Kazuo Ishiguro	The Remains of the Day (Historical novel)
1990	A. S. Byatt	Possession (Historical novel)
1991	Ben Okri	The Famished Road (Magic realism)
1992	Michael Ondaatje	The English Patient (Historiographic metafiction)
1992	Barry Unsworth	Sacred Hunger (Historical novel)
1993	Roddy Doyle	Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha ((Novel)
1994	James Kelman	How Late It Was, How Late (Stream of consciousness)
1995	Pat Barker	The Ghost Road (War novel)
1996	Graham Swift	Last Orders (Novel)
1997	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things (Novel)
1998	Ian McEwan	Amsterdam (Novel)
1999	J. M. Coetzee	Disgrace (Novel)
2000	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin (Historical novel)
2001	Peter Carey	True History of the Kelly Gang (Historical novel)
2002	Yann Martel	Life of Pi (Fantasy and adventure novel)
2003	DBC Pierre	Vernon God Little (Black comedy)
2004	Alan Hollinghurst	The Line of Beauty (Historical novel)
2005	John Banville	The Sea (Novel)
2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss (Novel)
2007	Anne Enright	The Gathering (Novel)
2008	Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger (Novel)
2009	Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall (Historical novel)
2010	Howard Jacobson	The Finkler Question (Comic novel)
2011	Julian Barnes	The Sense of an Ending (Novel)
2012	Hilary Mantel	Bring Up the Bodies (Historical novel)
2013	Eleanor Catton	The Luminaries (Historical novel)
2014	Richard Flanagan	The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Historical novel)
2015	Marlon James	A Brief History of Seven Killings (Historical/experimental novel)
2016	Paul Beatty	The Sellout (Satirical novel)
2017	George Saunders	Lincoln in the Bardo (Historical/experimental novel)