Booker Prize
Winners 1969-2006
The Booker Prize (or The Booker McConnell Prize, for the more exacting among you) was founded in 1969 by Booker McConnell, a multinational conglomerate company. Administered by Book Trust in the United Kingdom, this prestigious award is awarded to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan, or South Africa. In 1992, Booker teamed up with The Tetra Pak Laval Group in Russia to create the Russian Booker Prize.
2007 The Gathering by Anne Enright
2006 The
Inheritance of Loss by Kiran
Desai
2005 The
Sea by John
Banville
2004 The
Line of Beauty by Alan
Hollinghurst
2003 Vernon
God Little by DBC
Pierre
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:
A Novel 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 (co-winner)
1992 Sacred
Hunger by Barry
Unsworth (co-winner)
1991 The
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
1973 The
Siege of Krishnapur by J.
G. Farrell
1972 G.
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