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
    ?
    Something to Answer for
    by P.H. Newby

  2. 1970
    The Elected Member
    by Bernice Rubens

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

  4. 1972
    G
    by John Berger

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

  6. 1974
    Holiday
    by Stanley Middleton

  7. 1974
    The Conservationist
    by Nadine Gordimer

  8. 1975
    Heat and Dust
    by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  9. 1976
    ?
    Saville
    by David Storey

  10. 1977
    Staying On
    by Paul Scott

  11. 1978
    The Sea, the Sea
    by Iris Murdoch

  12. 1979
    Offshore (Flamingo)
    by Penelope Fitzgerald

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

  14. 1981
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie

  15. 1982
    Schindler's List
    by Thomas Keneally

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

  17. 1984
    Hotel Du Lac
    by Anita Brookner

  18. 1985
    The Bone People
    by Keri Hulme

  19. 1986
    Old Devils
    by Kingsley Amis

  20. 1987
    Moon Tiger
    by Penelope Lively

  21. 1988
    Oscar and Lucinda
    by Peter Carey

  22. 1989
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

  23. 1990
    Possession
    by A.S. Byatt

  24. 1991
    The Famished Road
    by Ben Okri

  25. 1992
    Sacred Hunger
    by Barry Unsworth

  26. 1992
    The English Patient
    by Michael Ondaatje

  27. 1993
    Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
    by Roddy Doyle

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

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

  30. 1996
    Last Orders
    by Graham Swift

  31. 1997
    The God of Small Things
    by Arundhati Roy

  32. 1998
    Amsterdam: A Novel
    by Ian McEwan

  33. 1999
    Disgrace
    by J. M. Coetzee

  34. 2000
    The Blind Assassin
    by Margaret Atwood

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

  36. 2002
    Life of Pi
    by Yann Martel

  37. 2003
    Vernon God Little
    by DBC Pierre

  38. 2004
    Line of Beauty

  39. 2005
    The Sea
    by John Banville

  40. 2006
    The Inheritance of Loss
    by Kiran Desai

  41. 2007
    The Gathering
    by Anne Enright

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

  43. 2010
    The Finkler Question
    by Howard Jacobson

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