1969

Winner
P.H. Newby
Something to Answer For
Faber & Faber
Shortlisted authors
Barry England
Figures in a Landscape
Cape
Nicholas Mosley
Impossible Object
Hodder & Stoughton
Iris Murdoch
The Nice and the Good
Chatto & Windus
Muriel Spark
The Public Image
Macmillan
G.M. Williams
From Scenes like These
Secker & Warburg
Judges W.L. Webb (Chair),
Dame Rebecca West, Stephen,
Spender, Frank Kermode, David
Farrer
197O
Winner
Bernice Rubens
The Elected Member
Eyre & Spottiswoode
Shortlisted authors
A.L. Barker
John Browns Body
Hogarth Press
Elizabeth Bowen
Eva Trout
Cape
Iris Murdoch
Brunos Dream
Chatto & Windus
William Trevor
Mrs Eckdorf in ONeills Hotel
Bodley Head
T.W. Wheeler
The Conjunction
Angus & Robertson
Judges David Holloway (Chair),
Dame Rebecca West, Lady
Antonia Fraser, Ross Higgins,
Richard Hoggart
1971
Winner
V.S. Naipaul
In a Free State
Deutsch
Shortlisted authors
Thomas Kilroy
The Big Chapel
Faber & Faber
Doris Lessing
Briefing for a Descent into Hell
Cape
Mordecai Richler
St Urbains Horseman
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Derek Robinson
Goshawk Squadron
Heinemann
Elizabeth Taylor
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
Chatto & Windus
Judges John Gross (Chair),
Saul Bellow, John Fowles, Lady
Antonia Fraser, Philip Toynbee
1972
Winner
John Berger
G
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Shortlisted authors
Susan Hill
The Bird of Night
Hamish Hamilton
Thomas Keneally
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Angus & Robertson
David Storey
Pasmore
Longman
Judges Cyril Connolly (Chair),
Dr George Steiner, Elizabeth
Bowen
1973
Winner
J.G. Farrell
The Siege of Krishnapur
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Shortlisted authors
Beryl Bainbridge
The Dressmaker
Duckworth
Elizabeth Mavor
A Green Equinox
Michael Joseph
Iris Murdoch
The Black Prince
Chatto & Windus
Judges Karl Miller (Chair), Edna
OBrien, Mary McCarthy
1974
Winners
Nadine Gordimer
The Conservationist
Cape
Stanley Middleton
Holiday
Hutchinson
Shortlisted authors
Kingsley Amis
Ending Up
Cape
Beryl Bainbridge
The Bottle Factory Outing
Duckworth
C.P. Snow
In Their Wisdom
Macmillan
Judges Ion Trewin (Chair), A.S.
Byatt, Elizabeth Jane Howard
1975
Winner
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Heat and Dust
John Murray
Shortlisted author
Thomas Keneally
Gossip from the Forest
Collins
Judges Angus Wilson (Chair),
Peter Ackroyd, Susan Hill, Roy
Fuller
1976
Winner
David Storey
Saville
Cape
Shortlisted authors
Andr Brink
An Instant in the Wind
W H Allen
R.C. Hutchinson
Rising
Michael Joseph
Brian Moore
The Doctors Wife
Cape
Julian Rathbone
King Fisher Lives
Michael Joseph
William Trevor
The Children of Dynmouth
Bodley Head
Judges Walter Allen (Chair),
Mary Wilson, Francis King
1977
Winner
Paul Scott
Staying On
Heinemann
Shortlisted authors
Paul Bailey
Peter Smarts Confessions
Cape
Caroline Blackwood
Great Granny Webster
Duckworth
Jennifer Johnston
Shadows on our Skin
Hamish Hamilton
Penelope Lively
The Road to Lichfield
Heinemann
Barbara Pym
Quartet in Autumn
Macmillan
Judges Philip Larkin (Chair),
Beryl Bainbridge, Brendan Gill,
David Hughes, Robin Ray
1978
Winner
Iris Murdoch
The Sea, the Sea
Chatto & Windus
Shortlisted authors
Kingsley Amis
Jakes Thing
Hutchinson
Andr Brink
Rumours of Rain
W H Allen
Penelope Fitzgerald
The Bookshop
Duckworth
Jane Gardam
God on the Rocks
Hamish Hamilton
Bernice Rubens
A Five-Year Sentence
W H Allen
Judges Sir Alfred (A.J.) Ayer (Chair),
Derwent May, P.H. Newby, Angela
Huth, Clare Boylan
1979
Winner
Penelope Fitzgerald
Offshore
Collins
Shortlisted authors
Thomas Keneally
Confederates
Collins
V.S. Naipaul
A Bend in the River
Deutsch
Julian Rathbone
Joseph
Michael Joseph
Fay Weldon
Praxis
Hodder & Stoughton
Judges Lord (Asa) Briggs (Chair),
Benny Green, Michael Ratcliffe,
Hilary Spurling, Paul Theroux
198O
Winner
William Golding
Rites of Passage
Faber & Faber
Shortlisted authors
Anthony Burgess
Earthly Powers
Hutchinson
Anita Desai
Clear Light of Day
Heinemann
Alice Munro
The Beggar Maid
Allen Lane
Julia OFaolain
No Country for Young Men
Allen Lane
Barry Unsworth
Pascalis Island
Michael Joseph
J.L. Carr
A Month in the Country
Harvester
Judges Professor David Daiches
(Chair), Ronald Blythe, Margaret
Forster, Claire Tomalin, Brian
Wenham
1981
Winner
Salman Rushdie
Midnights Children
1

Cape
Shortlisted authors
Molly Keane
Good Behaviour
Deutsch
Doris Lessing
The Sirian Experiments
Cape
Ian McEwan
The Comfort of Strangers
Cape
Whos who in the
Man Booker Prize
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shortlisted authors and
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Ann Schlee
Rhine Journey
Macmillan
Muriel Spark
Loitering with Intent
Bodley Head
D.M. Thomas
The White Hotel
Gollancz
Judges Professor Malcolm
Bradbury (Chair), Brian Aldiss,
Joan Bakewell, Samuel Hynes,
Hermione Lee
1982
Winner
Thomas Keneally
Schindlers Ark
Hodder & Stoughton
Shortlisted authors
John Arden
Silence among the Weapons
Methuen
William Boyd
An Ice-Cream War
Hamish Hamilton
Lawrence Durrell
Constance or Solitary Practices
Faber & Faber
Alice Thomas Ellis
The 27th Kingdom
Duckworth
Timothy Mo
Sour Sweet
Deutsch
Judges Professor John Carey
(Chair), Paul Bailey, Frank
Delaney, Janet Morgan,
Lorna Sage
1983
Winner
J.M. Coetzee
Life & Times of Michael K
Secker & Warburg
Shortlisted authors
Malcolm Bradbury
Rates of Exchange
Secker & Warburg
John Fuller
Flying to Nowhere
Salamander
Anita Mason
The Illusionist
Hamish Hamilton
Salman Rushdie
Shame
Cape
Graham Swift
Waterland
Heinemann
Judges Fay Weldon (Chair),
Angela Carter, Terence Kilmartin,
Peter Porter, Libby Purves
1984
Winner
Anita Brookner
Hotel du Lac
Cape
Shortlisted authors
J.G. Ballard
Empire of the Sun
Gollancz
Julian Barnes
Flauberts Parrot
Cape
Anita Desai
In Custody
Heinemann
Penelope Lively
According to Mark
Heinemann
David Lodge
Small World
Secker & Warburg
Judges Professor Richard Cobb
(Chair), Anthony Curtis, Polly
Devlin, John Fuller, Ted Rowlands
1985
Winner
Keri Hulme
The Bone People
Hodder & Stoughton
Shortlisted authors
Peter Carey
Illywhacker
Faber & Faber
J.L. Carr
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing
Viking
Doris Lessing
The Good Terrorist
Cape
Jan Morris
Last Letters from Hav
Viking
Iris Murdoch
The Good Apprentice
Chatto & Windus
Judges Norman St John-Stevas
(Chair), Nina Bawden,
J.W. Lambert, Joanna Lumley,
Marina Warner
1986
Winner
Kingsley Amis
The Old Devils
Hutchinson
Shortlisted authors
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaids Tale
Cape
Paul Bailey
Gabriels Lament
Cape
Robertson Davies
Whats Bred in the Bone
Viking
Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World
Faber & Faber
Timothy Mo
An Insular Possession
Chatto & Windus
Judges Anthony Thwaite (Chair),
Edna Healey, Isabel Quigly,
Gillian Reynolds, Bernice Rubens
1987
Winner
Penelope Lively
Moon Tiger
Deutsch
Shortlisted authors
Chinua Achebe
Anthills of the Savannah
Heinemann
Peter Ackroyd
Chatterton
Hamish Hamilton
Nina Bawden
Circles of Deceit
Macmillan
Brian Moore
The Colour of Blood
Cape
Iris Murdoch
The Book and the Brotherhood
Chatto & Windus
Judges P.D. James (Chair),
Lady Selina Hastings, Allan
Massie, Trevor McDonald,
John B Thompson
1988
Winner
Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda
Faber & Faber
Shortlisted authors
Bruce Chatwin
Utz
Cape
Penelope Fitzgerald
The Beginning of Spring
Collins
David Lodge
Nice Work
Secker & Warburg
Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
Viking
Marina Warner
The Lost Father
Chatto & Windus
Judges The Rt Hon Michael Foot
(Chair), Sebastian Faulks, Philip
French, Blake Morrison, Rose
Tremain
1989
Winner
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day
Faber & Faber
Shortlisted authors
Margaret Atwood
Cats Eye
Bloomsbury
John Banville
The Book of Evidence
Secker & Warburg
Sybille Bedford
Jigsaw
Hamish Hamilton
James Kelman
A Disaffection
Secker & Warburg
Rose Tremain
Restoration
Hamish Hamilton
Judges David Lodge (Chair),
Maggie Gee, Helen McNeil,
David Profumo, Edmund White
199O
Winner
A.S. Byatt
Possession
Chatto & Windus
Shortlisted authors
Beryl Bainbridge
An Awfully Big Adventure
Duckworth
Penelope Fitzgerald
The Gate of Angels
Collins
John McGahern
Amongst Women
Faber & Faber
Brian Moore
Lies of Silence
Bloomsbury
Mordecai Richler
Solomon Gursky Was Here
Chatto & Windus
Judges Sir Denis Forman (Chair),
Susannah Clapp, A Walton Litz,
Hilary Mantel, Kate Saunders
1991
Winner
Ben Okri
The Famished Road
Cape
Shortlisted authors
Martin Amis
Times Arrow
Cape
Roddy Doyle
The Van
Secker & Warburg
Rohinton Mistry
Such a Long Journey
Faber & Faber
Timothy Mo
The Redundancy of Courage
Chatto & Windus
William Trevor
Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives)
Viking
Judges Jeremy Treglown (Chair),
Penelope Fitzgerald, Jonathan
Keates, Nicholas Mosley, Ann
Schlee
1992
Winners
Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
Bloomsbury
Barry Unsworth
Sacred Hunger
Hamish Hamilton
Shortlisted authors
Christopher Hope
Serenity House
Macmillan
Patrick McCabe
The Butcher Boy
Picador
Ian McEwan
Black Dogs
Cape
Michle Roberts
Daughters of the House
Virago
Judges Victoria Glendinning
(Chair), John Coldstream,
Valentine Cunningham,
Dr Harriet Harvey Wood,
Mark Lawson
1993
Winner
Roddy Doyle
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Secker & Warburg
Shortlisted authors
Tibor Fischer
Under the Frog
Polygon
Michael Ignatieff
Scar Tissue
Chatto & Windus
David Malouf
Remembering Babylon
Chatto & Windus
Caryl Phillips
Crossing the River
Bloomsbury
Carol Shields
The Stone Diaries
Fourth Estate
Judges Lord Gowrie (Chair),
Professor Gillian Beer, Anne
Chisholm, Nicholas Clee,
Olivier Todd
1994
Winner
James Kelman
How Late It Was, How Late
Secker & Warburg
Shortlisted authors
Romesh Gunesekera
Reef
Granta Books
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Paradise
Hamish Hamilton
Alan Hollinghurst
The Folding Star
Chatto & Windus
George Mackay Brown
Beside the Ocean of Time
John Murray
Jill Paton Walsh
Knowledge of Angels
Green Bay
Judges Professor John Bayley
(Chair), Rabbi Julia Neuberger,
Dr Alastair Niven, Alan Taylor,
James Wood
1995
Winner
Pat Barker
The Ghost Road
Viking
Shortlisted authors
Justin Cartwright
In Every Face I Meet
Sceptre
Salman Rushdie
The Moors Last Sigh
Cape
Barry Unsworth
Morality Play
Hamish Hamilton
Tim Winton
The Riders
Picador
Judges George Walden (Chair),
Kate Kellaway, Peter Kemp,
Adam Mars-Jones, Ruth Rendell
1996
Winner
Graham Swift
Last Orders
Picador
Shortlisted authors
Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace
Bloomsbury
Beryl Bainbridge
Every Man for Himself
Duckworth
Seamus Deane
Reading in the Dark
Cape
Shena Mackay
The Orchard on Fire
Heinemann
Rohinton Mistry
A Fine Balance
Faber & Faber
Judges Carmen Callil (Chair),
Jonathan Coe, Ian Jack,
A.L. Kennedy, A.N. Wilson
1997
Winner
Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
Flamingo
Shortlisted authors
Jim Crace
Quarantine
Viking
Mick Jackson
The Underground Man
Picador
Bernard MacLaverty
Grace Notes
Cape
Tim Parks
Europa
Secker & Warburg
Madeleine St John
The Essence of the Thing
Fourth Estate
Judges Professor Gillian Beer
(Chair), Rachel Billington,
Jason Cowley, Jan Dalley,
Professor Dan Jacobson
1998
Winner
Ian McEwan
Amsterdam
Cape
Shortlisted authors
Beryl Bainbridge
Master Georgie
Duckworth
Julian Barnes
England, England
Cape
Martin Booth
The Industry of Souls
Dewi Lewis
Patrick McCabe
Breakfast on Pluto
Picador
Magnus Mills
The Restraint of Beasts
Flamingo
Judges Douglas Hurd (Chair),
Professor Valentine Cunningham,
Penelope Fitzgerald, Miriam
Gross, Nigella Lawson
1999
Winner
J.M. Coetzee
Disgrace
Secker & Warburg
Shortlisted authors
Anita Desai
Fasting, Feasting
Chatto & Windus
Michael Frayn
Headlong
Faber & Faber
Andrew OHagan
Our Fathers
Faber & Faber
Ahdaf Soueif
The Map of Love
Bloomsbury
Colm Tibn
The Blackwater Lightship
Picador
Judges Gerald Kaufman (Chair),
Shena Mackay, John Sutherland,
Boyd Tonkin, Natasha Walter
2OOO
Winner
Margaret Atwood
The Blind Assassin
Bloomsbury
Shortlisted authors
Trezza Azzopardi
The Hiding Place
Picador
Michael Collins
The Keepers of Truth
Phoenix House
Kazuo Ishiguro
When we were Orphans
Faber & Faber
Matthew Kneale
English Passengers
Hamish Hamilton
Brian ODoherty
The Deposition of Father McGreevy
Arcadia
Judges Simon Jenkins (Chair),
Professor Roy Foster, Mariella
Frostrup Caroline Gascoigne,
Rose Tremain
2OO1
Winner
Peter Carey
True History of the Kelly Gang
Faber & Faber
Shortlisted authors
Ian McEwan
Atonement
Cape
Andrew Miller
Oxygen
Sceptre
David Mitchell
number9dream
Sceptre
Rachel Seiffert
The Dark Room
William Heinemann
Ali Smith
Hotel World
Hamish Hamilton
Judges Kenneth Baker (Chair),
Philip Hensher, Michle Roberts,
Kate Summerscale, Professor
Rory Watson
2OO2
Winner
Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Canongate
Shortlisted authors
Rohinton Mistry
Family Matters
Faber & Faber
Carol Shields
Unless
Fourth Estate
William Trevor
The Story of Lucy Gault
Viking
Sarah Waters
Fingersmith
Virago
Tim Winton
Dirt Music
Picador
Judges Lisa Jardine (Chair), David
Baddiel, Russell Celyn Jones,
Salley Vickers, Erica Wagner
2OO3
Winner
D.B.C. Pierre
Vernon God Little
Faber & Faber
Shortlisted authors
Monica Ali
Brick Lane
Doubleday
Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake
Bloomsbury
Damon Galgut
The Good Doctor
Atlantic
Zo Heller
Notes on a Scandal
Viking
Clare Morrall
Astonishing Splashes of Colour
Tindal Street Press
Judges John Carey (Chair),
A. C. Grayling, Francine Stock,
Rebecca Stephens MBE,
D.J. Taylor
2OO4
Winner
Alan Hollinghurst
The Line of Beauty
Picador
Shortlisted authors
Achmat Dangor
Bitter Fruit
Atlantic
Sarah Hall
The Electric Michelangelo
Faber & Faber
David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
Sceptre
Colm Tibn
The Master
Picador
Gerard Woodward
Ill go to Bed at Noon
Chatto & Windus
Judges Chris Smith (Chair),
Tibor Fischer, Robert Macfarlane,
Rowan Pelling, Fiammetta Rocco
2OO5
Winner
John Banville
The Sea
Picador
Shortlisted authors
Julian Barnes
Arthur and George
Cape
Sebastian Barry
A Long, Long Way
Faber & Faber
Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
Faber & Faber
Ali Smith
The Accidental
Hamish Hamilton
Zadie Smith
On Beauty
Hamish Hamilton
Judges John Sutherland (Chair),
Lindsay Duguid, Rick Gekoski,
Josephine Hart, David Sexton
2OO6
Winner
Kiran Desai
The Inheritance of Loss
Hamish Hamilton
Shortlisted authors
Kate Grenville
The Secret River
Canongate
M.J. Hyland
Carry Me Down
Canongate
Hisham Matar
In the Country of Men
Viking
Edward St Aubyn
Mothers Milk
Picador
Sarah Waters
The Night Watch
Virago
Judges Hermione Lee (Chair),
Simon Armitage, Candia
McWilliam, Anthony Quinn,
Fiona Shaw
2OO7
Winner
Anne Enright
The Gathering
Cape
Shortlisted authors
Nicola Barker
Darkmans
Fourth Estate
Mohsin Hamid
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Hamish Hamilton
Lloyd Jones
Mister Pip
John Murray
Ian McEwan
On Chesil Beach
Cape
Indra Sinha
Animals People
Simon & Schuster
Judges Howard Davies (Chair),
Wendy Cope, Giles Foden, Ruth
Scurr, Imogen Stubbs
2OO8
2
Winner
Aravind Adiga
The White Tiger
Atlantic
Shortlisted authors
Sebastian Barry
The Secret Scripture
Faber and Faber
Amitav Ghosh
Sea of Poppies
John Murray
Linda Grant
The Clothes on Their Backs
Virago
Philip Hensher
The Northern Clemency
Fourth Estate
Steve Toltz
A Fraction of the Whole
Hamish Hamilton
Judges Michael Portillo (Chair),
Alex Clark, Louise Doughty,
James Heneage, Hardeep
Singh Kohli
2OO9
Winner
Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall
Fourth Estate
Shortlisted authors
A.S. Byatt
The Childrens Book
Chatto & Windus
J.M. Coetzee
Summertime
Harvill Secker
Adam Foulds
The Quickening Maze
Cape
Simon Mawer
The Glass Room
Little, Brown
Sarah Waters
The Little Stranger
Virago
Judges James Naughtie (Chair),
Lucasta Miller, John Mullan,
Sue Perkins, Michael Prodger
2O1O
Winner
Howard Jacobson
The Finkler Question
Bloomsbury
Shortlisted authors
Peter Carey
Parrot and Olivier in America
Faber & Faber
Emma Donoghue
Room
Picador
Damon Galgut
In a Strange Room
Atlantic
Andrea Levy
The Long Song
Headline Review
Tom McCarthy
C
Cape
Judges Sir Andrew Motion
(Chair), Rosie Blau, Deborah Bull,
Tom Sutcliffe, Frances Wilson
2O11
Winner
Julian Barnes
The Sense of an Ending
Jonathan Cape
Shortlisted authors
Carol Birch
Jamrachs Menagerie
Canongate
Patrick deWitt
The Sisters Brothers
Granta Books
Esi Edugyan
Half Blood Blues
Serpents Tail
Stephen Kelman
Pigeon English
Bloomsbury
A.D. Miller
Snowdrops
Atlantic
Judges Dame Stella Rimington
(Chair), Matthew dAncona,
Susan Hill, Chris Mullin, Gaby
Wood
2O12
Winner
Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies
Fourth Estate
Shortlisted authors
Tan Twan Eng
The Garden of Evening Mists
Myrmidon Books
Deborah Levy
Swimming Home And Other Stories
Faber & Faber
Alison Moore
The Lighthouse
Salt Publishing
Will Self
Umbrella
Bloomsbury
Jeet Thayil
Narcopolis
Faber & Faber
Judges Sir Peter Stothard (Chair),
Dinah Birch, Amanda Foreman,
Dan Stevens, Bharat Tandon
2O13
Judges Robert Macfarlane
(Chair), Robert Douglas-Fairhurst,
Natalie Haynes, Martha Kearney,
Stuart Kelly
1993
The Booker of Bookers
1 To mark the twenty-fifth
anniversary, three former
chairmen of judges Malcolm
Bradbury, David Holloway and
W L Webb were asked to
choose the book which they
believed to be the best of the
previous winners. Their Booker of
Bookers was Midnights Children
by Salman Rushdie, which won
the Booker Prize in 1981.
2OO8
The Best of the Booker
2 To mark the 4Oth anniversary,
a panel of judges was asked to
select a shortlist of the best books
to have won the prize in the
previous four decades. For the
first time in the prizes history, the
Best of the Booker was selected
by a public vote online at
www.themanbookerprize.com.
Winner
Salman Rushdie
Midnights Children
Cape
Shortlisted authors
J.G. Farrell
The Siege of Krishnapur
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Nadine Gordimer
The Conservationist
Cape
Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda
Faber and Faber
Pat Barker
The Ghost Road
Viking
J.M. Coetzee
Disgrace
Secker & Warburg
Judges Victoria Glendinning
(Chair), Mariella Frostrup,
John Mullan
2O1O
The Lost Man Booker
This was a one-off prize to honour
the books that missed out on the
opportunity to win the Booker
Prize in 197O, due to a change
in timing and eligibility for the
award.
Winner
J.G. Farrell
Troubles
Phoenix
Shortlisted authors
Nina Bawden
The Birds on the Trees
Virago
Shirley Hazzard
The Bay of Noon
Virago
Mary Renault
Fire From Heaven
Arrow
Muriel Spark
The Drivers Seat
Penguin
Patrick White
The Vivisector
Vintage
Judges Tobias Hill, Katie Derham,
Rachel Cooke
The Man Booker
International Prize
Awarded every two years,
The Man Booker International
Prize recognises one writer for his
or her achievement in fiction.
2O13
Winner
Lydia Davis USA
2O11
Winner
Philip Roth USA
2OO9
Winner
Alice Munro Canada
2OO7
Winner
Chinua Achebe Nigeria
2OO5
Winner
Ismail Kadar Albania