Thursday, 9 February 2012

Man Booker Prize winners

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded to the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. It is one of the most prestigious literature honors.

Year, Person, Work, Country

1969 P H Newby Something to Answer For UK
1970 Bernice Rubens The Elected Member UK
1971 V S Naipaul In a Free State UK/Trinidad and Tobago
1972 John Berger G UK
1973 J G Farrell The Siege of Krishnapur UK
1974 Nadine Gordimer The Conservationist South Africa
Stanley Middleton Holiday UK
1975 Ruth Prawer Jhabwala Heat and Dust UK
1976 David Storey Saville UK
1977 Paul Scott Staying On UK
1978 Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea Ireland
1979 Penelope Fitzgerald Offshore UK
1980 William Golding Rites of Passage UK
1981 Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children UK
1982 Thomas Keneally Schindler's Ark Australia
1983 J M Coetzee Life & Times of Michael K South Africa
1984 Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac UK
1985 Keri Hulme The Bone People New Zealand
1986 Kingsley Amis The Old Devils UK
1987 Penelope Lively Moon Tiger UK
1988 Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda Australia
1989 Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day UK/Japan
1990 A S Byatt Possession UK
1991 Ben Okri The Famished Road Nigeria
1992 Michael Ondaatje The English Patient Canada/Sri Lanka
Barry Unsworth Sacred Hunger UK
1993 Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Ireland
1994 James Kelman How Late It Was, How Late UK
1995 Pat Barker The Ghost Road UK
1996 Graham Swift Last Orders UK
1997 Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things India
1998 Ian McEwan Amsterdam UK
1999 J M Coetzee Disgrace South Africa
2000 Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin Canada
2001 Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang Australia
2002 Yann Martel Life of Pi Canada
2003 DBC Pierre Vernon God Little Australia
2004 Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty UK
2005 John Banville The Sea Ireland
2006 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss India
2007 Anne Enright The Gathering Ireland
2008 Aravind Adiga The White Tiger India
2009 Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall UK
2010 Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question UK
2011 Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending UK

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