Booker Prize: fiction

Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for fiction -- originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize and, later, as the Man Booker Prize -- was first awarded in 1969. Until 2013, eligibility was restricted to authors from Britain, Ireland, Zimbabwe and Commonwealth countries, but the rules have been changed to allow any author writing in English to win, regardless of nationality.

2024: Orbital, by Samantha Harvey (United KIngdom)

2023: Prophet Song, by Paul Lynch (Ireland)

2022: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, by Shehan Karunatilaka (Sri Lanka)

2021: The Promise, by Damon Galgut (South Africa)

 

2020: Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart (United Kingdom-United States)

2019 (two prizes): The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood (Canada)

2019 (two prizes): Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo (United Kingdom)

2018: Milkman, by Anna Burns (Northern Ireland)
 
2017: Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders (United States)

2016: The Sellout, by Paul Beatty (United States)

2015: A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marion James (Jamaica)

2014: The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan (Australia)

2013: The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton (New Zealand)

2012: Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel (United Kingdom)

2011: The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes (United Kingdom)

2010: The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson (United Kingdom)

2009: Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel (United Kingdom)

2008: The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga (India)

2007: The Gathering, by Anne Enright (Ireland)

2006: The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai (India)

2005: The Sea, by John Banville (Ireland)

2004: The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst (United Kingdom)

2003: Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre (Australia)

2002: Life of Pi, by Yann Martel (Canada)

2001: True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey (Australia)

2000: The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood (Canada)

1999: Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)

1998: Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan (United Kingdom)

1997: The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy (India)

1996: Last Orders, by Graham Swift (United Kingdom)

1995: The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker (United Kingdom)

1994: How Late It Was, How Late, by James Kelman (United Kingdom)

1993: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, by Roddy Doyle (Ireland)

1992 (two prizes): The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje (Canada) 

1992 (two prizes): Sacred Hunger, by Barry Unsworth (United Kingdom)

1991: The Famished Road, by Ben Okri (Nigeria)

1990: Possession, by A.S. Byatt (United Kingdom)

1989: The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, )United Kingdom)

1988: Oscar and Lucinda, by Peter Carey (Australia)

1987: Moon Tiger, by Penelope Lively (United Kingdom)

1986: The Old Devils, by Kingsley Amis (United Kingdom)

1985: The Bone People, by Keri Hulme (New Zealand)

1984: Hotel du Lac, by Anita Brookner (United Kingdom)

1983: Life and Times of Michael K, by J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)

1982: Schindler’s Ark, by Thomas Keneally (Australia)

1981: Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie (India & United Kingdom)

1980: Rites of Passage, by William Golding (United Kingdom)

1979: Offshore, by Penelope Fitzgerald (United Kingdom)

1978: The Sea, the Sea, by Iris Murdoch (Ireland & United Kingdom)

1977: Staying On, by Paul Scott (United Kingdom)

1976: Saville, by David Storey (United Kingdom)

1975: Heat and Dust, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (United Kingdom & Germany)

1974 (two prizes): The Conservationist, by Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)

1974 (two prizes):  Holiday, by Stanley Middleton (United Kingdom)

1973: The Siege of Krishnapur, by J.G. Farrell (United Kingdom & Ireland)

1972: G., by John Berger (United Kingdom)

1971: In a Free State, by V.S. Naipaul (United Kingdom & Ireland)

1970: The Elected Member, by Bernice Rubens (United Kingdom)

1970: (awarded in 2010, for 1970): Troubles, by J.G. Farrell (United Kingdom & Ireland)

1969: Something to Answer For, by P.H. Newby (United Kingdom)