Logo of the Man Booker Prize as used in 2015.
The Booker Prize for Fiction is an annual award for the best original English-language novel published in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1969. It was known as the Booker McConnnell Prize from 1969 to 2001 and as the Man Booker Prize from 2003 to 2019.
When the prize was originally established, only works written by citizens of Commonwealth countries, Ireland and South Africa were eligible to receive it. Works written by citizens of Zimbabwe later became eligible for the award also. In 2014, all restrictions on which authors were eligible to receive the prize were lifted. Any novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom can now be considered for the award regardless of the author's nationality. In 2016, Paul Beatty became the first American to win the prize.
Each year, the prize committee releases its "short list" of novels considered for the award. The "long list" is sometimes released also.
In 1992, the decision was made that the prize would only be awarded to one author each year. In 2019, however, the judges decided to ignore that rule and the prize was divided between the Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood and the British novelist Bernardine Evaristo.
Winners[]
| Year | Title | Author |
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| 2024 | Orbital |  Samantha Harvey ( UK)
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| 2023 | Prophet Song |  Paul Lynch ( Ireland)
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| 2022 | The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida |  Shehan Karunatilaka ( Sri Lanka)
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| 2021 | The Promise |  Damon Galgut ( South Africa)
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| 2020 | Shuggie Bain |  Douglas Stuart ( UK/ USA)
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| 2019 | The Testaments |  Margaret Atwood ( Canada)
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| 2019 | Girl, Woman, Other |  Bernardine Evaristo ( UK)
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| 2018 | Milkman |  Anna Burns ( Northern Ireland, UK)
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| 2017 | Lincoln in the Bardo |  George Saunders ( USA)
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| 2016 | The Sellout |  Paul Beatty ( USA)
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| 2015 | A Brief History of Seven Kings |  Marlon James ( Jamaica)
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| 2014 | The Narrow Road to the Deep North |  Richard Flanagan ( Australia)
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| 2013 | The Luminaries |  Eleanor Catton ( New Zealand)
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| 2012 | Bring Up the Bodies |  Hilary Mantel ( UK)
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| 2011 | The Sense of an Ending |  Julian Barnes ( UK)
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| 2010 | The Finkler Question |  Howard Jacobson ( UK)
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| 2009 | Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel ( UK)
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| 2008 | The White Tiger |  Aravind Adiga ( India/ Australia)
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| 2007 | The Gathering |  Anne Enright Ireland)
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| 2006 | The Inheritance of Loss |  Kiran Desai ( India)
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| 2005 | The Sea |  John Banville ( Ireland)
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| 2004 | The Line of Beauty |  Alan Hollinghurst ( UK)
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| 2003 | Vernon God Little |  DBC Pierre ( Australia)
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| 2002 | Life of Pi |  Yann Martel ( Canada)
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| 2001 | True History of the Kelly Gang |  Peter Carey ( Australia)
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| 2000 | The Blind Assassin |  Margaret Atwood ( Canada)
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| 1999 | Disgrace |  J.M. Coetzee ( South Africa)
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| 1998 | Amsterdam |  Ian McEwan ( UK)
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| 1997 | The God of Small Things |  Arundhati Roy ( India)
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| 1996 | Last Orders |  Graham Swift ( UK)
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| 1995 | The Ghost Road |  Pat Barker ( UK)
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| 1994 | How Late It Was, How Late |  James Kelman ( UK)
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| 1993 | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |  Roddy Doyle ( Ireland)
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| 1992 | Sacred Hunger |  Barry Unsworth ( UK)
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| 1992 | The English Patient |  Michael Ondaatje ( Canada)
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| 1991 | The Famished Road |  Ben Okri ( Nigeria)
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| 1990 | Possession |  A.S. Byatt ( UK)
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| 1989 | The Remains of the Day |  Kazuo Ishiguro ( Japan/ UK)
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| 1988 | Oscar and Lucinda | Peter Carey ( Australia)
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| 1987 | Moon Tiger |  Penelope Lively ( UK)
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| 1986 | The Old Devils |  Kingsley Amis ( UK)
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| 1985 | The Bone People |  Keri Hulme ( New Zealand)
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| 1984 | Hotel du Lac |  Anita Brookner ( UK)
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| 1983 | Life & Times of Michael K | J.M. Coetzee ( South Africa)
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| 1982 | Schindler's Ark |  Thomas Keneally ( Australia)
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| 1981 | Midnight's Children |  Salman Rushdie ( India/ UK)
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| 1980 | Rites of Passage |  William Golding ( UK)
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| 1979 | Offshore |  Penelope Fitzgerald ( UK)
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| 1978 | The Sea, the Sea |  Iris Murdoch ( Ireland/ UK)
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| 1977 | Staying On |  Paul Scott ( UK)
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| 1976 | Saville |  David Storey ( UK)
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| 1975 | Heat and Dust |  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ( UK/ Germany)
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| 1974 | Holiday |  Stanley Middleton ( UK)
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| 1974 | The Conservationist |  Nadine Gordimer ( South Africa)
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| 1973 | The Siege of Krishnapur |  J.G. Farrell ( UK/ Ireland)
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| 1972 | G |  John Berger ( UK)
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| 1971 | In a Free State |  V.S. Naipaul ( Trinidad and Tobago/ UK)
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| 1970 | The Elected Member |  Bernice Rubens ( UK)
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| 1970 | Troubles | J.G. Farrell ( UK/ Ireland)
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| 1969 | Something to Answer For |  P.H. Newby ( UK)
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