Booker Prize

Booker Prize Winners & Booker Prize Books



The booker prize was first awarded in 1969 and has been awarded every year since, to the book judged the best original full-length novel, by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or Ireland, written in the English language.


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Year / Prize Winner / Winning Novel

2008 / Aravind Adiga / The White Tiger
2007 / Annie Enright / The Gathering
2006 / Kiran Desai / The Inheritance of Loss
2005 / John Banville / The Sea
2004 / Alan Hollinghurst / The Line of Beauty
2003 / DBC Pierre / Vernon God Little
2002 / Yann Martel / Life of Pi
2001 / Peter Carey / True History of the Kelly Gang
2000 / Margaret Atwood / The Blind Assassin
1999 / J M Coetzee / Disgrace
1998 / Ian McEwan / Amsterdam
1997 / Arundhati Roy / The God of Small Things
1996 / Graham Swift / Last Orders
1995 / Pat Barker / The Ghost Road
1994 / James Kelman / How Late it Was, How Late
1993 / Roddy Doyle / Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1992 Joint Winners - Michael Ondaatje / The English Patient
Barry Unsworth / Sacred Hunger
1991 / Ben Okri / The Famished Road
1990 / A S Byatt / Possession
1989 / Kazuo Ishiguro / The Remains of the Day
1988 / Peter Carey / Oscar and Lucinda
1987 / Penelope Lively / Moon Tiger
1986 / Kingsley Amis / The Old Devils
1985 / Keri Hulme / The Bone People
1984 / Anita Brookner / Hotel du Lac
1983 / J M Coetzee / Life and Times of Michael K
1982 / Thomas Keneally / Schindler's Ark
1981 / Salman Rushdie / Midnight's Children
1980 / William Golding / Rites of Passage
1979 / Penelope Fitzgerald / Offshore
1978 / Iris Murdoch / The Sea
1977 / Paul Scott / Staying on
1976 / David Storey / Saville
1975 / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala / Heat and Dust
1974 - Joint Winners - Nadine Gordimer / The Conservationist
Stanley Middleton / Holiday
1973 / J G Farrell / The Siege Of Krishnapur
1972 / John Berger / G.
1971 / V S Naipaul / In A Free State
1970 / Bernice Rubens / The Elected Member
1969 / P H Newby / Something to Answer for



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