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The MAN Booker Prize for Fiction

WINNERS OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION

The Booker Prize is awarded annually for contemporary fiction published in English and written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or Ireland. For more information check out the official site.

Click on the links below to find these books in our catalog.

2011 The sense of an ending, by Julian Barnes

2010 The Finkler question, by Howard Jacobson

2009 Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel

2008 The white tiger, by Aravind Adiga

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 The 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, 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 and Sacred hunger, by Barry Unsworth

1991 The famished road, by Ben Okri

1990 Possession, 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 The life and times of Michael K., by J.M. Coetzee

1982Schindler’s ark, published in the U.S. as 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 and Holiday, by Stanley Middleton

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

1970 – “The Lost Booker Prize” – Troubles, by J.G. Farrell

1969 Something to answer for, by P.H. Newby

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