Honors and Awards

Man Booker Prize

Man Booker Prize is Britain's most prestigious literary award. Institutes in 1969, it is given for the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of a current or former British Commonwealth country. Until 2002, the award used to be known as Booker Prize. It is now called Man Booker Prize.

1969 Something to Answer For, P. H. Newby

1970 The Elected Member, Bernice Rubens

1971 In a Free State, V. S. Naipaul

1972 G.: A Novel, John Berger

1973 The Siege of Krishnapur, J. G. Farrell

1974 (tie) The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer

Holiday, Stanley Middleton

1975 Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1976 Saville, David Storey

1977 Staying On, Paul Scott

1978 The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch

1979 Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald

1980 Rites of Passage, William Golding

1981 Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

1982 Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally

1983 Life & Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee

1984 Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner

1985 The Bone People, Keri Hulme

1986 The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis

1987 Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively

1988 Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey

1989 The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

1990 Possession: A Romance, A. S. Byatt

1991 The Famished Road, Ben Okri

1992 The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje

Sacred Hunger, Barry Unsworth

1993 Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle

1994 How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman

1995 The Ghost Road, Pat Barker

1996 Last Orders, Graham Swift

1997 The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

1998 Amsterdam, Ian McEwan

1999 Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee

2000 The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood

2001 True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey

2002 Life of Pi, Yann Martel

2003 Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre (Peter Warren Finlay)

2004 The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst

2005 The Sea, John Banville

2006 The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai

2007 The Gathering, Anne Enright

2008 The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga