The Man Booker Prize
The prize, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2008 after launching in 1969, aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. To maintain the consistent excellence of the Man Booker Prize, judges are chosen from a wide range of disciplines, including critics, writers and academics, but also poets, politicians and actors, all with a passion for quality fiction.
The winner of the Man Booker Prize receives £50,000 and, like all the shortlisted authors, a cheque for £2,500 and a designer bound copy of their book. Fulfilling one of the objectives of the prize – to encourage the widest possible readership for the best in literary fiction – the winner and the shortlisted authors now enjoy a dramatic increase in book sales worldwide.
The Man Booker International Prize
Worth £60,000, the prize is awarded every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is generally available in translation in the English language. The winner is chosen solely at the discretion of the judging panel and there are no submissions from publishers.
Launched in 2005, the Man Booker International Prize has already established itself as a major player in the literary world and has literary excellence as its sole focus.
The Man Booker International Prize is significantly different from the annual Man Booker Prize for Fiction in that it highlights one writer’s overall contribution to fiction on the world stage. In seeking out literary excellence, the judges consider a writer’s body of work rather than a single novel.
Writers from across the globe are eligible for the bi-annual prize, provided their work is available in English. Previous winners include Albanian novelist and poet Ismail Kadare in 2005, Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe in 2007, Alice Munro in 2009 and Philip Roth in 2011.
The Man Booker Prize 2012
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
The Man Booker Prize 2011
The Sense Of An Ending by Julian Barnes
International Winner: Phillip Roth
The Man Booker Prize 2010
The Finkler Question by Howard Johnson
The Man Booker Prize 2009
International Winner: Alice Monroe
The Man Booker Prize 2008
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Man Booker Prize 2007
International Winner: Chinua Achebe
The Man Booker Prize 2006
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Man Booker Prize 2005
The Man Booker Prize 2004
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
The Man Booker Prize 2003
Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre
The Man Booker Prize 2002
The Man Booker Prize 2001
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
The Man Booker Prize 2000
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Man Booker Prize 1999
The Man Booker Prize 1998
The Man Booker Prize 1997
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Man Booker Prize 1996
The Man Booker Prize 1995
The Man Booker Prize 1994
How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
The Man Booker Prize 1993
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
The Man Booker Prize 1992
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
The Man Booker Prize 1991
The Man Booker Prize 1990
The Man Booker Prize 1989
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Man Booker Prize 1988
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
The Man Booker Prize 1987
The Man Booker Prize 1986
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
The Man Booker Prize 1985
The Man Booker Prize 1984
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
The Man Booker Prize 1983
Life & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
The Man Booker Prize 1982
Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
The Man Booker Prize 1981
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
The Man Booker Prize 1980
Rites of Passage by William Golding
The Man Booker Prize 1979
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
The Man Booker Prize 1978
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
The Man Booker Prize 1977
The Man Booker Prize 1976
The Man Booker Prize 1975
Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The Man Booker Prize 1974
The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
The Man Booker Prize 1973
The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
The Man Booker Prize 1972
G by John Berger
The Man Booker Prize 1971
The Man Booker Prize 1970
The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
The Man Booker Prize 1969
Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby
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