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Man Booker & Man Booker International: A History of Winners

Man Booker a History of Winners

From Themanbookerprize.com

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

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

International Winner: Alice Monroe

The Man Booker Prize 2008

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

The Man Booker Prize 2007

The Gathering by Anne Enright

International Winner: Chinua Achebe

The Man Booker Prize 2006

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

The Man Booker Prize 2005

The Sea by John Banville

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

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

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

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

The Man Booker Prize 1998

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan


The Man Booker Prize 1997

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The Man Booker Prize 1996

Last Order by Graham Swift

The Man Booker Prize 1995

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker

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 Famished Road by Ben Okri

The Man Booker Prize 1990

Possession by A.S. Byatt

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

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively

The Man Booker Prize 1986

The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis

The Man Booker Prize 1985

The Bone People by Keri Hulme

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

Staying On by Paul Scott

The Man Booker Prize 1976

Saville by David Storey

The Man Booker Prize 1975

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

The Man Booker Prize 1974

Holiday by Stanley Middleton

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

In a Free State by VS Naipaul

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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