Man Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded to the best full-length novel, written in the English language by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, or Ireland. The Man Booker Prize is one of the most famous, and arguably prestigeous, literary awards in the English language, and so is often the subject of great debate and the such. As with my Miles Franklin list, this is not something I’m aiming to work through any time soon, it’s just here. The ones that are reviewed, though, have been linked up to their review.
1969 – Something to Answer For – P.H. NEWBY
1970 – The Elected Member – Bernice RUBENS
1971 – In a Free State – V.S. NAIPAUL
1972 – G. – John BERGER
1973 – The Siege of Kirshnapur – J.G. FARRELL
1974 – The Conservationist – Nadine GORDIMER
1974 – 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 Ark – 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.S. BYATT
1991 – The Famished Road – Ben OKRI
1992 – The English Patient – Michael ONDAATJE
1992 – 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 – D.B.C. PIERRE
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
