Booker Prize- award winners

The Man Booker Prize promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year. Who is eligible for the prize? Any full-length novel, written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland and published this year, is eligible for the prize. The novel must be an original work in English (not a translation) and must not be self-published. How much is the prize worth to the winning author? The Prize is worth £50,000 to the winner. It will be awarded to the author of the best, eligible full-length novel in the opinion of the judges. The Prize may not be divided or withheld. How are the judges chosen? First, there is an Advisory Committee, which includes an author, two publishers, an agent, a bookseller, a librarian and the Prize Administrator with the chairman appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation. The judging panel, which changes each year, is selected by the Advisory Committee. A judge is rarely enrolled a second time. Every effort is made to achieve a balance between the judges of gender, articulacy and role, so that the panel includes a literary critic, an academic, a literary editor, a novelist and a major figure.

Winners


The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
2008

The Gathering by Anne Enright
2007

The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2006

The Sea by John Banville
2005

The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2004

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
2003

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2002

True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
2001

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
2000

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
1999

Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
1998

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
1997

Last Orders by Graham Swift
1996

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
1995

How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
1994

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
1993

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
1992

Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
1992

The Famished Road by Ben Okri
1991

Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
1990

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
1989

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
1988

Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
1987

The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
1986

The Bone People by Keri Hulme
1985

Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
1984

The Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
1983

Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
1982

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
1981

Rites of Passage by William Golding
1980

Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
1979

The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
1978

Staying on by Paul Scott
1977

Saville by David Storey
1976

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1975

The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
1974

Holiday by Stanley Middleton
1974

The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
1973

G.: A Novel by John Berger
1972

In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
1971

The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
1970

Something to Answer for by P. H. Newby
1969

Source
http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Booker%20Prize
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