A list of Booker Prize Winners, from 1969 to the present day.
Originally called the "Booker McConnell Prize", now "The Man Booker Prize" this is Britain's most prestigious literary award. The prize is presented each October or November for the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of a current or former British Commonwealth country or the Republic of Ireland.
1969 | Something to Answer For, P. H. Newby (out of print) |
1970 | The Elected Member, Bernice Rubens (Abacus [Little Brown U.K.]) |
1971 | In a Free State, V. S. Naipaul (Random House) paper |
1972 | G.: A Novel, John Berger (Vintage) paper |
1973 | The Siege of Krishnapur, J. G. Farrell (Carroll & Graf) paper |
1974 | (tie) The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer (Viking) paper |
Holiday, Stanley Middleton (out of print) | |
1975 | Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Peter Smith) |
1976 | Saville, David Storey (Vintage) U.K. |
1977 | Staying On, Paul Scott (Univ. of Chicago Press) paper |
1978 | The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch (Viking) paper |
1979 | Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald (Mariner) paper |
1980 | Rites of Passage, William Golding (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) |
1981 | Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie (Knopf) |
1982 | Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally (Simon & Schuster) |
1983 | Life & Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee (Viking) paper |
1984 | Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner (Vintage) paper |
1985 | The Bone People, Keri Hulme (Viking) paper |
1986 | The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis (Penguin) U.K. |
1987 | Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively (Grove/Atlantic) paper |
1988 | Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey (Vintage) paper |
1989 | The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (Vintage) paper |
1990 | Possession: A Romance, A. S. Byatt (Vintage) paper |
1991 | The Famished Road, Ben Okri (Anchor) paper |
1992 | The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (Knopf) |
Sacred Hunger, Barry Unsworth (W. W. Norton & Company) paper | |
1993 | Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle (Penguin USA) paper |
1994 | How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman (Delta) paper |
1995 | The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (Dutton) |
1996 | Last Orders, Graham Swift (Knopf) |
1997 | The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy (Random House) |
1998 | Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (Doubleday) |
1999 | Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee (Viking) |
2000 | The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood |
2001 | True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey |
2002 | Life of Pi, Yann Martel |
2003 | Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre |
2004 | The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst |
2005 | The Sea, John Banville |
2006 | The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai |
2007 | The Gathering, Anne Enright |
2008 | The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga |
2009 | Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel |
2010 | The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson |
2011 | The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes |
2012 | Bring up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel |
2013 | The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton |
2014 | The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan |
2015 | A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James |