The Man Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize was founded in 1969 by Booker McConnell, a multinational conglomerate company. Administered by Book Trust in the United Kingdom, this prestigious award is given to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the U.K., the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan, or South Africa.

	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 D. B. C. Pierre
	2002	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
		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	Life & Times of Michael K. by J. M. Coetzee
	1982	Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally
	1981	Midnight's Children by Salman Rusdie
	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
		Holiday by Stanley Middleton (This title is no longer available.)
	1973	The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
	1972	G: A Novel by John Berger
	1971	In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
	1970	The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
	1969	Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby