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Authors

For over half a century, the Booker Prizes have celebrated the works of the world’s best authors. From bold new voices to literary icons, these are the writers who have redefined the boundaries of fiction. Which will you read next? 

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Books

With over 50 years of remarkable fiction to choose from, there’s a story for everyone in the Booker Library. From bold new voices to modern classics and prize-winning masterpieces, these books will stir, surprise, and stay with you long after the final page. 

Booker Prize winning books
For over 50 years, the Booker Prizes have celebrated the world's most outstanding fiction, whether written in or translated into English

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Find our latest press releases, media images and useful information about the prizes

Ian McEwan
Part thriller, part psychological study, part farce, Amsterdam is one of the prize’s most polarising winners. Even Ian McEwan himself admitted it had a ‘rather improbable comic plot’.
J.M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee became the first author to win twice, following up his 1983 victory with Disgrace, an uncomfortable story of post-apartheid South Africa and sexual politics.
Peter Carey 2001
Punctuation and grammar went AWOL as Peter Carey became just the second novelist to win the prize twice, with an inventive and challenging take on the story of the outlaw Ned Kelly.
Yann Martel 2002
The year of a new sponsor – the Man Group – and a rejected novel, Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, which went on to become one of the biggest-selling books in the prize’s history.
Alan Hollinghurst, 2004
The media reception of Alan Hollinghurst’s win did The Line of Beauty a great disservice. There was far more to the book than it simply being ‘the first gay novel’ to win the prize.