Man Booker Prize
Updated September 9, 2022 |
Infoplease Staff
Great novels of the Commonwealth
Britain's most prestigious literary award is presented each Oct. or Nov. by the National Book League in the United Kingdom, for the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of a current or former British Commonwealth country. The name of the award changed in 2002 from the Booker Prize, or officially the Booker McConnell Prize, to the Man Booker Prize, and the purse increased from $30,000 to about $80,000. (Book's current publisher is listed in parentheses.)
| 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 (Random House) |
| 2001 | True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey (Knopf) |
| 2002 | Life of Pi, Yann Martel (Harcourt Brace) |
| 2003 | Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre (Peter Warren Finlay) (Canongate Pub Ltd) |
| 2004 | The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (Bloomsbury USA) |
| 2005 | The Sea, John Banville (Vintage) |
| 2006 | The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai (Grove) |
| 2007 | The Gathering, Anne Enright (Grove) |
| 2008 | The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (Atlantic) |
| 2009 | Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel (Henry Holt) |
| 2010 | The Finkler Question, Howard Jacobson (Bloomsbury) |
| 2011 | The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes (Jonathon Cape) |
| 2012 | Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate) |
| 2013 | The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton (Granta) |
| 2014 | The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan (Knopf) |
| 2015 | A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James (Riverhead Books) |
| 2016 | The Sellout By Paul Beatty Published by (Oneworld) |
| 2017 | Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (Bloomsbury Publishing) |
| 2018 | Milkman, Anna Burns (Faber & Faber) |
| 2019 | The Testaments, Margaret Atwood (Vintage, Chatto & Windus) |
| Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo (Penguin General, Hamish Hamilton) | |
| 2020 | Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart (Picador, Pan Macmillan) |
| 2021 | TBA |
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