Man Booker Prize – The prize is the world’s most important literary award

Man Booker Prize – The Man Booker Prize promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year. The prize is the world’s most important literary award and has the power to transform the fortunes of authors and publishers.

Man Booker Prize

 

               The Man Booker Prize promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year. The prize is the world’s most important literary award and has the power to transform the fortunes of authors and publishers.

 

Man Booker Prize  Presented by – Man Group  First awarded – 1969 Official Website – http://www.themanbookerprize.com/

 

Prize Winner

Year	Author	Title	Genre	Nationality
1969	P. H. Newby	Something to Answer For	Novel	United Kingdom
1970	Bernice Rubens	The Elected Member	Novel	United Kingdom
1970	J. G. Farrell	Troubles	Novel	United Kingdom & Ireland
1971	V. S. Naipaul	In a Free State	Short story	United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago
1972	John Berger	G.	Experimental novel	United Kingdom
1973	J. G. Farrell	The Siege of Krishnapur	Novel	United Kingdom & Ireland
1974	Nadine Gordimer	The Conservationist	Novel	South Africa
	Stanley Middleton	Holiday	Novel	United Kingdom
1975	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Heat and Dust	Historical novel	United Kingdom & Germany
1976	David Storey	Saville	Novel	United Kingdom
1977	Paul Scott	Staying On	Novel	United Kingdom
1978	Iris Murdoch	The Sea, the Sea	Philosophical novel	Ireland & United Kingdom
1979	Penelope Fitzgerald	Off shore	Novel	United Kingdom
1980	William Golding	Rites of Passage	Novel	United Kingdom
1981	Salman Rushdie	Midnight’s Children	Magical realism	United Kingdom
1982	Thomas Keneally	Schindler’s Ark	Biographical novel	Australia
1983	J. M. Coetzee	Life & Times of Michael K	Novel	South Africa
1984	Anita Brookner	Hotel du Lac	Novel	United Kingdom
1985	Keri Hulme	The Bone People	Mystery novel	New Zealand
1986	Kingsley Amis	The Old Devils	Comic novel	United Kingdom
1987	Penelope Lively	Moon Tiger	Novel	United Kingdom
1988	Peter Carey	Oscar and Lucinda	Novel	Australia
1989	Kazuo Ishiguro	The Remains of the Day	Historical novel	United Kingdom
1990	A. S. Byatt	Possession	Historical novel	United Kingdom
1991	Ben Okri	The Famished Road	Magic realism	Nigeria
1992	Michael Ondaatje	The English Patient	Historiographic metafiction	Canada
	Barry Unsworth	Sacred Hunger	Historical novel	United Kingdom
1993	Roddy Doyle	Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha	Novel	Ireland
1994	James Kelman	How Late It Was, How Late	Stream of consciousness	United Kingdom
1995	Pat Barker	The Ghost Road	War novel	United Kingdom
1996	Graham Swift	Last Orders	Novel	United Kingdom
1997	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things	Novel	India
1998	Ian McEwan	Amsterdam	Novel	United Kingdom
1999	J. M. Coetzee	Disgrace	Novel	South Africa
2000	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin	Historical novel	Canada
2001	Peter Carey	True History of the Kelly Gang	Historical novel	Australia
2002	Yann Martel	Life of Pi	Fantasy and adventure novel	Canada
2003	DBC Pierre	Vernon God Little	Black comedy	Australia
2004	Alan Hollinghurst	The Line of Beauty	Historical novel	United Kingdom
2005	John Banville	The Sea	Novel	Ireland
2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss	Novel	India
2007	Anne Enright	The Gathering	Novel	Ireland
2008	Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger	Novel	India
2009	Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall	Historical novel	United Kingdom
2010	Howard Jacobson	The Finkler Question	Comic novel	United Kingdom
2011	Julian Barnes	The Sense of an Ending	Novel	United Kingdom
2012	Hilary Mantel	Bring Up the Bodies	Historical novel	United Kingdom
2013	Eleanor Catton	The Luminaries	Historical novel	New Zealand
2014	Richard Flanagan	The Narrow Road to the Deep North	Historical novel	Australia
2015	Marlon James	A Brief History of Seven Killings	Historical/Experimental novel	Jamaica