A list of past winners of the Booker prize. A prestigious literary prize awarded to the best fiction novel written in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
This year's booker prize was awarded on the the 10th of October 2006.
Year | Booker Prize Winner |
Winning Novel |
---|---|---|
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 & Barry Unsworth | The English Patient & 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 & 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 & Stanley Middleton | The Conservationist & 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 |
The 19 longlisted books in alphabetical order. Click on the title to order from Amazon:
Booker prize nominated books