1969-2008
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.
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