Booker Prize Winners
A list of past winners of the Booker prize. A prestigious literary prize awarded to the best fiction novel written in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
This year's booker prize was awarded on the the 10th of October 2006.
Past winners of the Booker Prize for Fiction
| Year | Booker Prize Winner |
Winning Novel |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss |
| 2005 | John Banville | The Sea |
| 2004 | Alan Hollinghurst | The Line of Beauty |
| 2003 | DBC Pierre | 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 Late It Was, How Late |
| 1993 | Roddy Doyle | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
| 1992 Joint Winners | Michael Ondaatje & Barry Unsworth | The English Patient & 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 | The Bone People |
| 1984 | Anita Brookner | Hotel du Lac |
| 1983 | J M Coetzee | Life & 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 |
| 1977 | Paul Scott | Staying On |
| 1976 | David Storey | Saville |
| 1975 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Heat and Dust |
| 1974 Joint Winners | Nadine Gordimer & Stanley Middleton | The Conservationist & Holiday |
| 1973 | J G Farrell | The Siege of Krishnapur |
| 1972 | John Berger | G |
| 1971 | V S Naipaul | In a Free State |
| 1970 | Bernice Rubens | The Elected Member |
| 1969 | P H Newby | Something to Answer For |
2006 Man Booker prize longlist
The 19 longlisted books in alphabetical order. Click on the title to order from Amazon:
- Peter Carey - Theft: A Love Story
- Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
- Robert Edric - Gathering the Water
- Nadine Gordimer - Get a Life
- Kate Grenville - The Secret River
- MJ Hyland - Carry Me Down
- Howard Jacobson - Kalooki Nights
- James Lasdun - Seven Lies
- Mary Lawson - The Other Side of the Bridge
- Jon McGregor - The So Many Ways to Begin
- Hisham Matar - In the Country of Men
- Claire Messud - The Emperor's Children
- David Mitchell - Black Swan Green
- Naeem Murr - The Perfect Man
- Andrew O'Hagan - Be Near Me
- James Robertson - The Testament of Gideon Mack
- Edward St Aubyn - Mother's Milk
- Barry Unsworth - The Ruby in her Navel
- Sarah Waters - The Night Watch