The Man Booker Prize - The Complete List of Winners
November 19th 2006 11:40
The Man Booker is among the most coveted and prestigous of book awards. Anyone within the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland is eligible for nomination (as long they currently live within these countries, it doesn't even matter if they were born outside the Commonwealth), provided they have written a full-length novel in the English language that is not self-published.
Last year a Man Booker International Prize was started, for which any person of any nationality can qualify. Originally called the Booker-McConnell Prize when it began in 1968, it went on to become known as simply the Booker prize, before switching to the Man Booker prize in more recent years.
Here's a complete list of winners
1969 "Something to Answer For" by Percy Howard Newby (England)
1970 "The Elected Member" by Bernice Rubens (Wales)
1971 "In a Free State" by V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad and Tobago)
1972 "G" by John Berger (England)
1973 "The Seige of Krishnapur" by James Gordon Farrell (England)
1974 "The Conservationist" by Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
tied with "Holiday" by Stanley Middleton (England)
1975 "Heat and Dust" by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (England)
1976 "Saville" by David Storey (England)
1977 "Staying On" by Paul Scott (England)
1978 "The Sea, The Sea" by Iris Murdoch (Ireland)
1979 "Offshore" by Penelope Fitzgerald (England)
1981"Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie (India)
1982 "Schindler's Ark" by Thomas Keneally (Australia)
1983 "Life and Times of Michael K" by J. M. Coetzee (South Africa)
1984 "Hotel du Luc" by Anita Brookner (England)
1985 "The Bone People" by Keri Hulme (New Zealand)
1986 "The Old Devils" by Kingsley Amis (England)
1987 "Moon Tiger" by Penelope Lively (England)
1988 "Oscar and Lucinda" by Peter Carey (Australia)
1989 "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro (England)
1990 "Possession" by A. S. Byatt (England)
1991 "The Famished Road" by Ben Okri (Nigeria)
1992 "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka)
tied with "Sacred Hunger" by Barry Unsworth (England)
1993 "Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha" by Roddy Doyle (Ireland)
1994 "How Late it was, How Late" by James Kelman (Scotland)
1995 "The Ghost Road" by Pat Barker (England)
1996 "Last Orders" by Graham Swift (England)
1997 "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy (India)
1998 "Amsterdam" by Ian McEwan (England)
1999 "Disgrace" by J. M. Coetzee (South Africa)
2000 "The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood (Canada)
2001 "The True History of the Kelly Gang" by Peter Carey (Australia)
2002 "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel (Canada)
2003 "Vernon God Litle" by DBC Pierre (Australia)
2004 "The Line of Beauty" by Alan Hollinghurst (England)
2005 "The Sea" by John Banville (Ireland)
2006 "The Inheritance of Loss" by Kiran Desai (India)
I've read only four of them. I guess I have a fair while to go before I can claim any good knowledge of Booker Prize winners. As it stands, only Peter Carey and J. M. Coetzee have won more than once. The majority of the winners are English, but I suppose that's to be expected if the competition is based there.
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Comment by Keira
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I havent heard of most of these.. only Oscar and Lucinda and the English Patient and I think thats because they are movies...
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Comment by Cibbuano
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The Blind Assassin is pretty damn good, though. Crazy-ass plot!
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And I remember going 'No Way!' ahahahaha.
A friend of mine read The Blind Assassin and he told me it was boring so I've been a bit put off.