The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker-McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel, written in theEnglish language, and published in the UK. The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.
Year | Author | Title | Genre(s) | Nationality |
1969 | P. H. Newby | Something to Answer For | Novel | United Kingdom |
1970 | Bernice Rubens | The Elected Member | Novel | United Kingdom |
1970 | J. G. Farrell | Troubles | Novel | United Kingdom |
Ireland | ||||
1971 | V. S. Naipaul | In a Free State | Short story | 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 | Magical 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 | 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 |