The Man Booker Prize (created as the Booker McConnell Prize and previously known as the Booker Prize) is an annual award for the best original English-language novel published in the United Kingdom.
When the prize was originally established, only works written by citizens of Commonwealth countries, Ireland and South Africa were eligible to receive it. Works written by citizens of Zimbabwe later became eligible for the award also. In 2014, all restrictions on which authors were eligible to receive the prize were lifted. Any novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom can now be considered for the award.In 2016, Paul Beatty became the first American to win the Man Booker Prize.
Each year, the prize committee releases its "short list" of novels considered for the award. The "long list" is sometimes released also.
Winners
Year | Title | Author |
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2017 | Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders ( USA) |
2016 | The Sellout | Paul Beatty ( USA) |
2015 | A Brief History of Seven Kings | Marlon James ( Jamaica) |
2014 | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Richard Flanagan ( Australia) |
2013 | The Luminaries | Eleanor Catton ( New Zealand) |
2012 | Bring Up the Bodies | Hilary Mantel ( UK) |
2011 | The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes ( UK) |
2010 | The Finkler Question | Howard Jacobson ( UK) |
2009 | Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel ( UK) |
2008 | The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga ( India/ Australia) |
2007 | The Gathering | Anne Enright Ireland) |
2006 | The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai ( India) |
2005 | The Sea | John Banville ( Ireland) |
2004 | The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst ( UK) |
2003 | Vernon God Little | DBC Pierre ( Australia) |
2002 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel ( Canada) |
2001 | True History of the Kelly Gang | Peter Carey ( Australia) |
2000 | The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood ( Canada) |
1999 | Disgrace | J.M. Coetzee ( South Africa) |
1998 | Amsterdam | Ian McEwan ( UK) |
1997 | The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy ( India) |
1996 | Last Orders | Graham Swift ( UK) |
1995 | The Ghost Road | Pat Barker ( UK) |
1994 | How Late It Was, How Late | James Kelman ( UK) |
1993 | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Roddy Doyle ( Ireland) |
1992 | Sacred Hunger | Barry Unsworth ( UK) |
1992 | The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje ( Canada) |
1991 | The Famished Road | Ben Okri ( Nigeria) |
1990 | Possession | A.S. Byatt ( UK) |
1989 | The Remains of the Day | Kazuo Ishiguro ( Japan/ UK) |
1988 | Oscar and Lucinda | Peter Carey ( Australia) |
1987 | Moon Tiger | Penelope Lively ( UK) |
1986 | The Old Devils | Kingsley Amis ( UK) |
1985 | The Bone People | Keri Hulme ( New Zealand) |
1984 | Hotel du Lac | Anita Brookner ( UK) |
1983 | Life & Times of Michael K | J.M. Coetzee ( South Africa) |
1982 | Schindler's Ark | Thomas Keneally ( Australia) |
1981 | Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie ( India/ UK) |
1980 | Rites of Passage | William Golding ( UK) |
1979 | Offshore | Penelope Fitzgerald ( UK) |
1978 | The Sea, the Sea | Iris Murdoch ( Ireland/ UK) |
1977 | Staying On | Paul Scott ( UK) |
1976 | Saville | David Storey ( UK) |
1975 | Heat and Dust | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ( UK/ Germany) |
1974 | Holiday | Stanley Middleton ( UK) |
1974 | The Conservationist | Nadine Gordimer ( South Africa) |
1973 | The Siege of Krishnapur | J.G. Farrell ( UK/ Ireland) |
1972 | G | John Berger ( UK) |
1971 | In a Free State | V.S. Naipaul ( Trinidad and Tobago/ UK) |
1970 | The Elected Member | Bernice Rubens ( UK) |
1970 | Troubles | J.G. Farrell ( UK/ Ireland) |
1969 | Something to Answer For | P.H. Newby ( UK) |