About the Booker Prize
About the Booker Prize
The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades
Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. It is a prize that transforms the winner’s career.
The winner receives £50,000 as well as the £2,500 awarded to each of the six shortlisted authors. Both the winner and the shortlisted authors are guaranteed a global readership and can expect a dramatic increase in book sales.
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Previous winners
Flesh
by David Szalay (prize winner)
Orbital
by Samantha Harvey (prize winner)
Prophet Song
by Paul Lynch (prize winner)
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
by Shehan Karunatilaka (prize winner)
The Promise
by Damon Galgut (prize winner)
Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart (prize winner)
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo (prize winner)
The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood (prize winner)
Milkman
by Anna Burns (prize winner)
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders (prize winner)
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty (prize winner)
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James (prize winner)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan (prize winner)
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton (prize winner)
Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel (prize winner)
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes (prize winner)
The Finkler Question
by Howard Jacobson (prize winner)
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel (prize winner)
The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga (prize winner)
The Gathering
by Anne Enright (prize winner)
The Inheritance of Loss
by Kiran Desai (prize winner)
The Sea
by John Banville (prize winner)
The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst (prize winner)
Vernon God Little
by DBC Pierre (prize winner)
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel (prize winner)
True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey (prize winner)
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood (prize winner)
Disgrace
by J.M. Coetzee (prize winner)
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan (prize winner)
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy (prize winner)
Last Orders
by Graham Swift (prize winner)
The Ghost Road
by Pat Barker (prize winner)
How Late It Was, How Late
by James Kelman (prize winner)
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
by Roddy Doyle (prize winner)
The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje (prize winner)
Sacred Hunger
by Barry Unsworth (prize winner)
The Famished Road
by Ben Okri (prize winner)
Possession
by A.S. Byatt (prize winner)
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro (prize winner)
Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey (prize winner)
Moon Tiger
by Penelope Lively (prize winner)
The Old Devils
by Kingsley Amis (prize winner)
The Bone People
by Keri Hulme (prize winner)
Hotel du Lac
by Anita Brookner (prize winner)
Life and Times of Michael K
by J.M. Coetzee (prize winner)
Schindler's Ark
by Thomas Keneally (prize winner)
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie (prize winner)
Rites of Passage
by William Golding (prize winner)
Offshore
by Penelope Fitzgerald (prize winner)
The Sea, the Sea
by Iris Murdoch (prize winner)
Staying On
by Paul Scott (prize winner)
Saville
by David Storey (prize winner)
Heat and Dust
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (prize winner)
The Conservationist
by Nadine Gordimer (prize winner)
Holiday
by Stanley Middleton (prize winner)
The Siege of Krishnapur
by J.G. Farrell (prize winner)
G.
by John Berger (prize winner)
In a Free State
by V. S. Naipaul (prize winner)
The Elected Member
by Bernice Rubens (prize winner)
Something to Answer For
by P. H. Newby (prize winner)
