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Booker Prize

The Booker Prize was formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019)

The prize is now sponsored by Crankshaft, and the winner receives £50,000

In 1992, after the prize was shared for a second time, a rule was introduced that made it mandatory for the appointed jury to make the award to just a single author/book. This rule was broken in 2019 when the prize was again shared

Historically, the winner of the Booker Prize had been required to be a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Republic of Ireland, or Zimbabwe. It was announced in 2013 that future Booker Prize awards would consider authors from anywhere in the world, so long as their work was in English and published in the UK

Lost Man Booker Prize was a special edition of the Man Booker Prize awarded by a public vote in 2010 to a novel from 1970 as the books published in 1970 were not eligible for the Man Booker Prize due to a rules alteration. Won by Troubles by JG Farrell

A ‘Best of Beryl’ prize was set up in 2006 for Beryl Bainbridge, who had been nominated five times without winning. The prize was won by Master Georgie

In 1993 and 2008, the Best of the Booker prizes were both won by Midnight’s Children

In 2018, the Golden Man Booker was won by The English Patient

Most nominations – Iris Murdoch, Margaret Atwood (6)

1969	PH Newby	Something to Answer For	Inaugural winner
1970	Bernice Rubens	The Elected Member	First female winner
1971	VS Naipaul	In a Free State	Born in Trinidad and Tobago
1972	John Berger	G.
1973	JG Farrell	The Siege of Krishnapur
1974	Nadime Gordimer Stanley Middleton	The Conservationist Holiday	First time prize is shared
1975	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Heat and Dust	Born in Germany
1976	David Storey	Saville
1977	Paul Scott	Staying On
1978	Iris Murdoch	The Sea, the Sea
1979	Penelope Fitzgerald	Offshore	Shortest work (141 pages) to win
1980	William Golding	Rites of Passage
1981	Salman Rushdie	Midnight’s Children
1982	Thomas Keneally	Schindler’s Ark
1983	JM Coetzee	Life & Times of Michael K
1984	Anita Brookner	Hotel du Lac
1985	Keri Hulme	The Bone People
1986	Kingsley Amis	The Old Devils
1987	Penelope Lively	Moon Tiger
1988	Peter Carey	Oscar and Lucinda
1989	Kazuo Ishiguro	The Remains of the Day
1990	AS Byatt	Possession
1991	Ben Okri	The Famished Road	Born in Nigeria
1992	Michael Ondaatje Barry Unsworth	The English Patient Sacred Hunger	Prize shared
1993	Roddy Doyle	Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1994	James Kelman	How Late It Was, How Late	Rabbi Julia Neuberger, one of the judges, said that the book was "crap"
1995	Pat Barker	The Ghost Road
1996	Graham Swift	Last Orders
1997	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things
1998	Ian McEwan	Amsterdam
1999	JM Coetzee	Disgrace	First person to win the prize twice
2000	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin
2001	Peter Carey	True History of the Kelly Gang
2002	Yann Martel	Life of Pi	First winner of Man Booker Prize
2003	DBC Pierre	Vernon God Little
2004	Alan Hollinghurst	The Line of Beauty
2005	John Banville	The Sea
2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss
2007	Anne Enright	The Gathering
2008	Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger
2009	Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall
2010	Howard Jacobson	The Finkler Question
2011	Julian Barnes	The Sense of an Ending
2012	Hilary Mantel	Bring up the Bodies
2013	Eleanor Catton	The Luminaries	Longest work (832 pages) to win Youngest author (28) to win
2014	Richard Flanagan	The Narrow Road to the Deep North
2015	Marlon James	A Brief History of Seven Killings	Born in Jamaica
2016	Paul Beatty	The Sellout	First American to win
2017	George Saunders	Lincoln in the Bardo
2018	Anna Burns	Milkman
2019	Margaret Atwood Bernadine Evaristo	The Testaments Girl, Woman, Other	Oldest author (79) to win First black female winner
2020	Douglas Stuart	Shuggie Bain
2021	Damon Galgut	The Promise
2022	Shehan Karunatilaka	The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida	Born in Sri Lanka

International Booker Prize

The International Booker Prize was sponsored by the Man Group from 2005 to 2015. The award was given biennially to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation

Year	Author	Country
2005	Ismail Kadare	Albania
2007	Chinua Achebe	Nigeria
2009	Alice Munro	Canada
2011	Philip Roth	United States
2013	Lydia Davis	United States
2015	Laszlo Krasznahorkai	Hungary

Since 2016, the award has been given annually to a single book translated into English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. The prize money is shared between the author and the translator

Year	Author	Country	Work	Language
2016	Han Kang	South Korea	The Vegetarian	Korean
2017	David Grossman	Israel	A Horse Walks Into a Bar	Hebrew
2018	Olga Tokarczuk	Poland	Flights	Polish
2019	Jokha al-Harthi	Oman	Celestial Bodies	Arabic
2020	Marieke Lucas Rijneveld	Netherlands	The Discomfort of Evening	Dutch
2021	David Diop	France	At Night All Blood is Black	French
2022	Geetanjali Shree	India	Tomb of Sand	Hindi
2023	Georgi Gospodinov	Bulgaria	Time Shelter	Bulgarian