MAN BOOKER PRIZE

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Booker Prize, is one of the world’s most prestigious literary prizes, awarded each year for the best original full-length novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland in the English language. The Booker prize was started by Booker McConnel, a multinational conglomerate company in 1969. This award is administered by Book Trust in the United Kingdom. For the year 2007, the prize has been awarded to Ireland novelist Anne Enright for ‘The Gathering’.

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Year	Author	Country	Title
1969	P. H. Newby	United Kingdom	Something to Answer For
1970	Bernice Rubens	United Kingdom	The Elected Member
1971	V. S. Naipaul	Trinidad and Tobago/United Kingdom	In a Free State
1972	John Berger	United Kingdom	G.
1973	J. G. Farrell	United Kingdom	The Siege of Krishnapur
1974	Nadine Gordimer Stanley Middleton	South Africa United Kingdom	The Conservationist Holiday
1975	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	United Kingdom/Germany	Heat and Dust
1976	David Storey	United Kingdom	Saville
1977	Paul Scott	United Kingdom	Staying On
1978	Iris Murdoch	Ireland/United Kingdom	The Sea, the Sea
1979	Penelope Fitzgerald	United Kingdom	Offshore
1980	William Golding	United Kingdom	Rites of Passage
1981	Salman Rushdie	India	Midnight's Children
1982	Thomas Keneally	Australia	Schindler's Ark
1983	J. M. Coetzee	South Africa	Life & Times of Michael K
1984	Anita Brookner	United Kingdom	Hotel du Lac
1985	Keri Hulme	New Zealand	The Bone People
1986	Kingsley Amis	United Kingdom	The Old Devils
1987	Penelope Lively	United Kingdom	Moon Tiger
1988	Peter Carey	Australia	Oscar and Lucinda
1989	Kazuo Ishiguro	United Kingdom/Japan	The Remains of the Day
1990	A. S. Byatt	United Kingdom	Possession: A Romance
1991	Ben Okri	Nigeria	The Famished Road
1992	Michael Ondaatje Barry Unsworth	Sri Lanka/Canada United Kingdom	The English Patient Sacred Hunger
1993	Roddy Doyle	Ireland	Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
1994	James Kelman	United Kingdom	How Late It Was, How Late
1995	Pat Barker	United Kingdom	The Ghost Road
1996	Graham Swift	United Kingdom	Last Orders
1997	Arundhati Roy	India	The God of Small Things
1998	Ian McEwan	United Kingdom	Amsterdam
1999	J. M. Coetzee	South Africa	Disgrace
2000	Margaret Atwood	Canada	The Blind Assassin
2001	Peter Carey	Australia	True History of the Kelly Gang
2002	Yann Martel	Canada	Life of Pi
2003	DBC Pierre	Australia/Mexico	Vernon God Little
2004	Alan Hollinghurst	United Kingdom	The Line of Beauty
2005	John Banville	Ireland	The Sea
2006	Kiran Desai	India	The Inheritance of Loss
2007	Anne Enright	Ireland	The Gathering
2008	Aravind Adiga	India	The White Tiger
2009	Hilary Mantel	United Kingdom	Wolf Hall