Booker Prize winners

Winners of the Booker Prize

Winners in alphabetical order | Back to the list of literary prizes | Booker's web site

Anne Enright: "The Gathering" (2007)
Kiran Desai: "The Inheritance of Loss" (2006)
John Banville: "The Sea" (2005)
Alan Holinghurst: "The Line of Beauty" (2004)
2003: DBC Pierre: Vernon God Little
2002: Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
2001: True History Of The Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey
2000: The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood
1999: Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee
1998: Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan
1997: The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
1996: Last Orders, by Graham Swift
1995: The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker
1994: How Late It Was, How Late, by James Kelman
1993: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, by Roddy Doyle
1992: The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
: Sacred Hunger, by Barry Unsworth
1991: Famished Road, by Ben Okri
1990: Possession: A Romance, by A. S. Byatt
1989: The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
1988: Oscar and Lucinda, by Peter Carey
1987: Moon Tiger, by Penelope Lively
1986: The Old Devils, by Kingsley Amis
1985: The Bone People, by Keri Hulme
1984: Hotel du Lac, by Anita Brookner
1983: Life & Times of Michael K, by J. M. Coetzee
1982: Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally
1981: Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
1980: Rites of Passage, by William Golding
1979: Offshore, by Penelope Fitzgerald
1978: The Sea, The Sea, by Iris Murdoch
1977: Staying On, by Paul Scott
1976: Saville, by David Storey
1975: Heat and Dust, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1974: The Conservationist, by Nadine Gordimer
: Holiday, by Stanley Middleton
1973: The Siege of Krishnapur, by J.G. Farrell
1972: G.: A Novel, by John Berger
1971: In a Free State, by V. S. Naipaul
1970: The Elected Member, by Bernice Rubens
1969: Something to Answer For, by P. H. Newby

Winners in alphabetical order

Kingsley Amis 
Margaret Atwood
Pat Barker 
John Berger 
Anita Brookner 
A.S. Byatt 
Peter Carey  (2)
J.M. Coetzee  (2)
Roddy Doyle
J.G. Farrell 
Penelope Fitzgerald 
William Golding 
Nadine Gordimer 
Keri Hulme 
Kazuo Ishiguro 
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 
James Kelman 
Thomas Keneally 
Penelope Lively 
Yann Martel
Ian McEwan
Iris Murdoch 
Stanley Middleton 
V.S. Naipaul 
P.H. Newby        
Ben Okri 
Michael Ondaatje 
DBC Pierre
Arundhati Roy 
Bernice Rubens 
Salman Rushdie 
Paul Scott 
David Storey 
Graham Swift 
Barry Unsworth