The Man Booker Prize

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The Man Booker Prize promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year. The prize is the world’s most important literary award and has the power to transform the fortunes of authors and even publishers.

Now in its 40th year, the prize aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. (Awards given since 1969)

  1. 1969
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    Something to Answer for
    by P.H. Newby

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  2. 1970
    Elected Member
    by B. Rubens

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  3. 1971
    In a Free State: A Novel
    by V.S. Naipaul

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  4. 1972
    G
    by John Berger

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  5. 1973
    The Siege of Krishnapur (New York Review Books Classics)
    by J.G. Farrell

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  6. 1974
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    Holiday
    by Stanley Middleton

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  7. 1974
    The Conservationist
    by Nadine Gordimer

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  8. 1975
    Heat and Dust
    by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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  9. 1976
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    Saville
    by David Storey

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  10. 1977
    Staying On
    by Paul Scott

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  11. 1978
    The Sea, the Sea
    by Iris Murdoch

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  12. 1979
    Offshore (Flamingo)
    by Penelope Fitzgerald

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  13. 1980
    Rites of Passage (Faber Fiction Classics)
    by William Golding

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  14. 1981
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie

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  15. 1982
    Schindler's List
    by Thomas Keneally

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  16. 1983
    Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel
    by J. M. Coetzee

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  17. 1984
    Hotel Du Lac
    by Anita Brookner

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  18. 1985
    The Bone People
    by Keri Hulme

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  19. 1986
    Old Devils
    by Kingsley Amis

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  20. 1987
    Moon Tiger
    by Penelope Lively

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  21. 1988
    Oscar and Lucinda
    by Peter Carey

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  22. 1989
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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  23. 1990
    Possession: A Romance
    by A.S. Byatt

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  24. 1991
    The Famished Road
    by Ben Okri

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  25. 1992
    Sacred Hunger
    by Barry Unsworth

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  26. 1992
    The English Patient
    by Michael Ondaatje

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  27. 1993
    Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
    by Roddy Doyle

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  28. 1994
    How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel
    by James Kelman

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  29. 1995
    The Ghost Road (The Regeneration Trilogy)
    by Pat Barker

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  30. 1996
    Last Orders
    by Graham Swift

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  31. 1997
    The God of Small Things
    by Arundhati Roy

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  32. 1998
    Amsterdam: A Novel
    by Ian McEwan

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  33. 1999
    Disgrace
    by J. M. Coetzee

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  34. 2000
    The Blind Assassin
    by Margaret Atwood

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  35. 2001
    True History of the Kelly Gang: A Novel
    by Peter Carey

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  36. 2002
    Life of Pi
    by Yann Martel

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  37. 2003
    Vernon God Little
    by DBC Pierre

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  38. 2004
    The Line of Beauty
    by Alan Hollinghurst

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  39. 2005
    The Sea
    by John Banville

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  40. 2006
    The Inheritance of Loss
    by Kiran Desai

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  41. 2007
    The Gathering
    by Anne Enright

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  42. 2008
    The White Tiger: A Novel
    by Aravind Adiga

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