1969-2010     The Booker Prize is awarded for the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, Ireland or South Africa. The Booker Prize is sponsored by Booker PLC. 2010: Howard Jacobsen - The Finkler Question 2009: Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall 2008: Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger 2007: Anne Enright - The Gathering 2006: Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss 2005: John Banville - The Sea 2004: Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty 2003: DBC Pierce - Vernon God Little 2002: Yann Martel - Life of Pi 2001: Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang 2000: Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin 1999: J.M. Coetzee - Disgrace 1998: Ian McEwan - Amsterdam 1997: Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things 1996: Graham Swift - Last Orders 1995: Pat Barker - The Ghost Road 1994: James Kelman - How Little It Was, How Late 1993: Roddy Doyle - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (in 1993 Salman Rushdie was awarded Best of Twenty Five Years of the Booker Prize for his novel Midnight’s Children.) 1992: Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient and Barry Unsworth Sacred Hunger 1991: Ben Okri - The Famished Road 1990: A. S. Byatt - Possession 1989: Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day 1988: Peter Carey - Oscar and Lucinda 1987: Penelope Lively - Moon Tiger 1986: Kingsley Amis - The Old Devils 1985: Keri Hulme - Bone People 1984: Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac 1983: J. M. Coetzee - Life and Times of Michael K. 1982: Thomas Keneally - Schindler’s Ark 1981: Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children 1980: William Golding - Rites of Passage 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald - Offshore 1978: Iris Murdoch - The Sea, The Sea 1977: Paul Scott - Staying On 1976: David Storey - Saville 1975: Nadine Gordimer - The Conversationalist and Ruth Prower Jhabvala Heat and Dust 1974: Stanley Middleton - Holiday 1973: J. G. Farrell - Siege of Krishnapur 1972: John Berge - G 1971: V. S. Nailpul - In a Free State 1970: Bernice Rubens - The Elected Member 1969: P. H. Newby - Something to Answer For