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Revision as of 16:51, 10 June 2023

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