The Man Booker Prize

This literary prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize, is sponsored by the Man Group and the Booker Prize Foundation (BPF) is responsible for its organisation and operation. The Man Booker Prize aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. The Man Booker judges are selected from the country's finest critics, writers and academics to maintain the consistent excellence of the prize. The winner of the Man Booker Prize receives £50,000.

See the Man Booker Prize website at http://www.themanbookerprize.com/ and information on the Man Booker shortlist 2008

2008

The White Tiger Winner

Aravind Adiga

The Secret Scripture

Sebastian Barry

Sea of Poppies

Amitav Ghosh

The Clothes on their backs

Linda Grant

The Northern Clemency

Philip Hensher

A Fraction of the whole

Steve Toltz

2007

The Gathering Winner

Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape)

Darkmans

Nicola Barker (4th Estate)

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid (Hamish Hamilton)

Mister Pip

Lloyd Jones (John Murray)

On Chesil Beach

Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape)

Animals People

Indra Sinha (Simon & Schuster)

2006

The Inheritance of Loss Winner

Kiran Desai

The Secret River

Kate Grenville

Carry Me Down

M.J. Hyland

In the Country of Men

Hisham Matar

Mothers Milk

Edward St Aubyn

The Night Watch

Sarah Waters

2005

The Sea Winner

John Banville

Arthur & George

Julian Barnes

A Long Long Way

Sebastian Barry

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Accidental

Ali Smith

On Beauty

Zadie Smith

 

 

2004

• The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst Winner
• Bitter Fruit Achmat Dangor
• The Electric Michelangelo Sarah Hall
• Cloud Atlas David Mitchell
• The Master Colm Tóibín
• I'll go to Bed at Noon Gerard Woodward

2003

• Vernon God Little DBC Pierre Winner
• Brick Lane Monica Ali
• Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood
• The Good doctor Damon Galgut
• Notes on a scandal Zoë Heller
• Astonishing splashes of colour Clare Morrall

2002

• Life of Pi Yann Martel Winner
• Family Matters Rohinton Mistry
• Unless Carol Shields
• The Story of Lucy Gault William Trevor
• Fingersmith Sarah Waters
• Dirt Music Tim Winton

2001

• True history of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey Winner
• Atonement Ian McEwan
• Oxygen Andrew Miller
• Number 9 dream David Mitchell
• The dark room Rachel Seiffert
• Hotel world Ali Smith

• 2000 The blind assassin Margaret Atwood
• 1999 Disgrace J.M. Coetzee
• 1998 Amsterdam Ian McEwan
• 1997 The god of small things Arundhati Roy
• 1996 Last orders Graham Swift
• 1995 The ghost road Pat Barker
• 1994 How late it was, how late James Kelman
• Special Prize for Best of the Past 25 years
  • Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie
• 1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle
• 1992 The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
• 1992 Sacred hunger Barry Unsworth
• 1991 The Famished road Ben Okri
• 1990 Possession A.S. Byatt
• 1989 Remains of the day Kazuo Ishiguro
• 1988 Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey
• 1987 Moon Tiger Penelope Lively
• 1986 The Old devils Kingsley Amis
• 1985 The Bone people Keri Hulme
• 1984 Hotel du lac Anita Brookner
• 1983 Life and times of Michael K J.M.Coetzee
• 1982 Schindler’s ark Thomas Keneally
• 1981 Midnight’s children Salman Rushdie
• 1980 Rites of Passage William Golding
• 1979 Offshore Penelope Fitzgerald
• 1978 The Sea, the sea Iris Murdoch
• 1977 Staying on Paul Scott
• 1976 Saville David Storey
• 1975 Heat and dust Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• 1974 The Conservationist Nadine Gordimer
• 1974 Holiday Stanley Middleton
• 1973 The Siege of Krishnapur J.G.Farrell
• 1972 G John Berger
• 1971 In a free state V.S.Naipaul
• 1970 The Elected member Bernice Rubens
• 1969 Something to answer for P.H.Newby