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Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction represents the very best in contemporary British fiction. One of the world’s foremost literary awards, and one of noteworthy influence, it is a benchmark of critical quality for British fiction writers. It has the power to transform the fortunes of authors, and even publishers. Now in its thirty-eighth year, the prize aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth (a.k.a. the British Commonwealth — 53 allied countries, mostly former colonies of Great Britain) or the Republic of Ireland. The Man Booker judges are selected from the U.K.’s finest critics, writers and academics to maintain the consistent excellence of the prize. The winner of the Man Booker Prize receives £50,000 and both the winner and the shortlisted authors are guaranteed a worldwide readership plus a notable increase in book sales. .
For more information, and to see a list of the other nominees for each year, please visit the Official Man Booker Prize Web site. All books owned by Lincoln City Libraries are hotlinked to their entries in our library catalog, so that you may check on their current availability. If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department.
Man Booker Prize Winners for Best Novel
2022
Shehan Karunatilaka
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
2021
Damon Galgut
The Promise
2020
Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain
2019 [tie]
Margaret Atwood
The Testaments
2019 [tie]
Bernardine Evaristo
Girl, Woman, Other
2018
Anna Burns
Milkman
2017
George Saunders
Lincoln in the Bardo
2016
Paul Beatty
The Sellout
2015
Marlon James
A Brief History of Seven Killings
2014
Richard Flanagan
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
2013
Eleanor Catton
The Luminaries
2012
Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies
2011
Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending
2010
Howard Jacobson
The Finkler Question
2009
Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall
2008
Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger
2007
Anne Enright
The Gathering
2006
Kiran Desai
The Inheritance of Loss
2005
John Banville
The Sea
2004
Alan Hollinghurst
The Line of Beauty
2003
D.B.C. 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 [tie]
Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
1992 [tie]
Barry Unsworth
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 & 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 [as Schindler’s List]
1981
Salman Rushdie
Midnight’s Children
1980
William Golding
Rites of Passage
1979
Penelope Fitzgerald
Offshore
1978
Iris Murdoch
The Sea, the Sea
1977
Paul Scott
Staying On
1976
David Storey
Saville
1975
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Heat and Dust
1974 [tie]
Nadine Gordimer
The Conservationist
1974 [tie]
Stanley Middleton
Holiday
1973
J.G. Farrell
The Siege of Krishnapur
1972
John Berger
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1971
V.S. Naipaul
In a Free State
1970
Bernice Rubens
The Elected Member
1969
P.H. Newby
Something to Answer For
Man Booker International Prize Winners
The Man Booker International Prize is a biennial international literary award given to a living author of any nationality for fiction published in English or generally available in English translation. The award, sponsored by the Man Group plc and established in 2005 to complement the Man Booker Prize (above), rewards one writer’s overall achievement in literature and their significant influence on writers and readers worldwide. The award is therefore a recognition of the writer’s body of work, rather than any one title. In 2015 it was announced that the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (a separate British literary award sponsored by the newspaper The Independent) would be disbanded. The prize money from that award would be folded into the Man Booker International Prize, and the latter would become what the Independent prize used to be: a yearly book award for English translations, with the prize split between author and translator
For more information, and to see a list of the other nominees for each year, please visit the Official Man Booker International Prize Web site. All books owned by Lincoln City Libraries are hotlinked to their entries in our library catalog, so that you may check on their current availability. If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department.
2022
Geetanjali Shree
Tomb of Sand (translated by Daisy Rockwell)
India
2021
David Diop
At Night All Blood is Black (translated by Anna Moschovakis)
France
2020
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
The Discomfort of Everything (translated by Michele Hutchison)
Dutch-Netherlands
2019
Jokha Alharti
Celestial Bodies (translated by Marilyn Booth)
Oman
2018
Olga Tokarczuk
Flights (translated by Jennifer Croft)
Poland
2017
David Grossman
A Horse Walks Into a Bar (translated by Jessica Cohen)
Israel
2016
Han Kang
The Vegetarian (translated by Deborah Smith)
South Korea
2015
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Hungary
2013
Lydia Davis
United States
2011
Philip Roth
United States
2009
Alice Munro
Ireland
2007
Chinua Achebe
Nigeria
2005
Ismail Kadare
Balkan Albanian, living in France
Updated May 2023 sdc
