Man Booker Prize

This literary prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize, is sponsored by the Man Group and the Booker Prize Foundation (BPF) is responsible for its organisation and operation. The Man Booker Prize aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. The Man Booker judges are selected from the country's finest critics, writers and academics to maintain the consistent excellence of the prize.

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