Booker Prize Winners

Booker Prize Winners All-Time List 1969-2025

The Booker Prizes are literary awards for fiction. List Lovers all-time Booker prize winners list includes all the Booker prize winning authors, their winning novel, nationality and other key facts.

The Booker prize lists was last updated 29 Oct 2024

Booker Prize Frequently Asked Questions

Booker Prize Winners Frequently Asked Questions

When will the 2024 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist be announced?

The Booker Prize Winners longlist was announced on 30 July 2024. The 2024 Booker Prize Winners shortlist was announced on 16 September 2024. The 2024 Booker Prize winner will be announced on 12 November 2024.

What's the difference between the Booker Prize and the Booker International Prize?

The Booker Prize is awarded annually to the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom. The Booker International Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best fiction novel (or collection of short stories) translated into English.

How often are the Booker Prizes Awarded?

The Booker Prize has been awarded annually every year since 1969. The first Booker International Prize was awarded in 2005, then biannually until 2015. Since 2016 it has been awarded annually.

Who judges the Booker Prize?

The winning novels are chosen by a panel of judges from literary circles and other walks of life.

What are the Booker Prizes?

The Booker prizes are cash prizes awarded by the Booker Prize Foundation. Booker prize winners enjoy international media coverage and wider recognition for their works.

Who won the first Booker Prize?

P.H. Newby (Percy Howard Newby CBE) was the first winner of the Booker Prize for his novel Something to Answer For in 1969.

Can any author enter their works for a Booker Prize?

Since 2014 the author of any book published in the United Kingdom is eligible for consideration. Before 2014 only citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations, Zimbabwe and the Republic of Ireland were eligible for entry.

Who was the first woman to win a Booker Prize?

Bernice Rubens was the first female Booker Prize winner for her novel The Elected Member and she was also the first Welsh Booker Prize winner.

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Year	Author	Title	Genre / Synopsis	Nationalities	Booker Prize Winners Shortlist
1969	P. H. Newby	Something to Answer For.	Fiction	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	1969 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: P. H. Newby was the 1969 Booker prize winner Barry England: Figures in a Landscape Nicholas Mosley: The Impossible Object Iris Murdoch: The Nice and the Good Muriel Spark: The Public Image Gordon Williams: From Scenes Like These.
1970^[4]	Bernice Rubens	The Elected Member.	Fiction.	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿	1970 Booker Prize Shared Winners Shortlist: Bernice Rubens and J. G. Farrell were joint Booker prize winners in 1970 A L Barker: John Brown’s Body Elizabeth Bowen: Eva Trout Iris Murdoch: Bruno’s Dream William Trevor: Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel Terence Wheeler: The Conjunction.
1970^[4]	J. G. Farrell	Troubles.	Fiction.	🇬🇧 United Kingdom / Ireland 🇮🇪	1970 Lost Booker Prize Shared Winners Shortlist: J. G. Farrell and Bernice Rubens shared the 1970 Booker prize Nina Bawden: The Birds on the Trees Shirley Hazzard: The Bay of Noon Mary Renault: Fire From Heaven Muriel Spark: The Driver’s Seat Patrick White: The Vivisector Mark.
1971	V. S. Naipaul	In a Free State.	Short story.	🇬🇧 United Kingdom / Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹	1971 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: V. S. Naipaul was the 1971 Booker prize winner Thomas Kilroy: The Big Chapel Doris Lessing: Briefing for a Descent into Hell Mordecai Richler: St. Urbain’s Horseman Derek Robinson: Goshawk Squadron Elizabeth Taylor: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont.
1972	John Berger	G.	Experimental novel.	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	1972 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: John Berger was the 1972 Booker prize winner Susan Hill: The Bird of Night Thomas Keneally: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith David Storey: Pasmore.
1973	J. G. Farrell^[3]	The Siege of Krishnapur.	Fiction.	🇬🇧 United Kingdom / Ireland 🇮🇪	1973 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: J. G. Farrell was the 1973 Booker prize winner Beryl Bainbridge: The Dressmaker Elizabeth Mavor: The Green Equinox Iris Murdoch: The Black Prince.
1974^[1]	Nadine Gordimer	The Conservationist	Fiction	🇿🇦 South Africa	1974 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Nadine Gordimer and Stanley Middleton shared the 1974 Booker prize Kingsley Amis: Ending Up Beryl Bainbridge: The Bottle Factory Outing C. P. Snow: In Their Wisdom.
1974^[1]	Stanley Middleton	Holiday	Fiction	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	1974 Booker Prize Shared Winners Shortlist: Stanley Middleton and Nadine Gordimerw were joint winners of the 1974 Booker prize Kingsley Amis: Ending Up Beryl Bainbridge: The Bottle Factory Outing C. P. Snow: In Their Wisdom.
1975	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Heat and Dust	Historical novel	🇬🇧 United Kingdom / Germany 🇩🇪	1975 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was the 1975 Booker prize winner Thomas Keneally: Gossip from the Forest.
1976	David Storey	Saville	Fiction	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	1976 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: David Storey was the 1976 Booker prize winner André Brink: An Instant in the Wind R. C. Hutchinson: Rising Brian Moore: The Doctor’s Wife Julian Rathbone: King Fisher Lives William Trevor: The Children of Dynmouth.
1977	Paul Scott	Staying On	Fiction	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	1977 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Paul Scott was the 1977 Booker prize winner Paul Bailey: Peter Smart’s Confessions Caroline Blackwood: Great Granny Webster Jennifer Johnston: Shadows on our Skin Penelope Lively: The Road to Lichfield Barbara Pym: Quartet in Autumn.
1978	Iris Murdoch	The Sea, the Sea	Philosophical novel	🇬🇧 United Kingdom /Ireland 🇮🇪	1978 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Iris Murdoch was the 1978 Booker prize winner Kingsley Amis: Jake’s Thing André Brink: Rumours of Rain Penelope Fitzgerald: The Bookshop Jane Gardam: God on the Rocks Bernice Rubens: A Five-Year Sentence.
1979	Penelope Fitzgerald	Offshore	Fiction	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	1979 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Penelope Fitzgerald was the 1979 Booker prize winner Thomas Keneally: Confederates V. S. Naipaul: A Bend in the River Julian Rathbone: Joseph Fay Weldon: Praxis.
1980	William Golding	Rites of Passage	Fiction	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	1980 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: William Golding was the 1980 Booker prize winner Anthony Burgess: Earthly Powers Anita Desai: Clear Light of Day Alice Munro: The Beggar Maid Julia O’Faolain: No Country for Young Men Barry Unsworth: Pascali’s Island J. L. Carr: A Month in the Country.
1981	Salman Rushdie	Midnight’s Children	Magical realism	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, India 🇮🇳	1981 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Salman Rushdie was the 1981 Booker prize winner Molly Keane: Good Behaviour Doris Lessing: The Sirian Experiments Ian McEwan: The Comfort of Strangers Ann Schlee: Rhine Journey Muriel Spark: Loitering with Intent D. M. Thomas: The White Hotel.
1982	Thomas Keneally	Schindler’s Ark	Biographical novel	🇦🇺Australia	1982 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Thomas Keneally was the 1982 Booker prize winner John Arden: Silence Among the Weapons William Boyd: An Ice-Cream War Lawrence Durrell: Constance or Solitary Practices Alice Thomas: Ellis The 27th Kingdom Timothy Mo: Sour Sweet.
1983	J. M. Coetzee	Life & Times of Michael K	Fiction	🇿🇦 South Africa	1983 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: J. M. Coetzee was the 1983 Booker prize winner Malcolm Bradbury: Rates of Exchange John Fuller: Flying to Nowhere Anita Mason: The Illusionist Salman Rushdie: Shame Graham Swift: Waterland.
1984	Anita Brookner	Hotel du Lac	Fiction	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	1984 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Anita Brookner was the 1984 Booker prize winner J. G. Ballard: Empire of the Sun Julian Barnes: Flaubert’s Parrot Anita Desai: In Custody Penelope Lively: According to Mark David Lodge: Small World.
1985	Keri Hulme	The Bone People	Mystery novel	🇳🇿 New Zealand	1985 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Keri Hulme was the 1985 Booker prize winner Peter Carey: Illywhacker J. L. Carr: The Battle of Pollocks Crossing Doris Lessing: The Good Terrorist Jan Morris: Last Letters from Hav Iris Murdoch: The Good Apprentice.
1986	Kingsley Amis	The Old Devils	Comic novel	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	1986 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Kingsley Amis was the 1986 Booker prize winner Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid’s Tale Paul Bailey: Gabriel’s Lament Robertson Davies: What’s Bred in the Bone Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World Timothy Mo: An Insular Possession.
1987	Penelope Lively	Moon Tiger	Fiction	🇬🇧 United Kingdom UK / Egypt 🇪🇬	1987 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Penelope Lively was the 1987 Booker prize winner Chinua Achebe: Anthills of the Savannah Peter Ackroyd: Chatterton Nina Bawden: Circles of Deceit Brian Moore: The Colour of Blood Iris Murdoch: The Book and the Brotherhood.
1988	Peter Carey	Oscar and Lucinda	Fiction	🇦🇺Australia	1988 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Peter Carey was the 1988 Booker prize winner Bruce Chatwin: Utz Penelope Fitzgerald: The Beginning of Spring David Lodge: Nice Work Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses Marina Warner: The Lost Father.
1989	Kazuo Ishiguro	The Remains of the Day	Historical novel	🇬🇧 United Kingdom / Japan 🇯🇵	1989 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Kazuo Ishiguro was the 1989 Booker prize winner Margaret Atwood: Cat’s Eye John Banville: The Book of Evidence Sybille Bedford: Jigsaw James Kelman: A Disaffection Rose Tremain: Restoration.
1990	A. S. Byatt	Possession	Historical novel	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	1990 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: A. S. Byatt was the 1990 Booker prize winner Beryl Bainbridge: An Awfully Big Adventure *Penelope Fitzgerald: The Gate of Angels John McGahern: Amongst Women Brian Moore: Lies of Silence Mordecai Richler*: Solomon Gursky Was Here.
1991	Ben Okri	The Famished Road	Magic realism	🇳🇬 Nigeria	1991 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Ben Okri was the 1991 Booker prize winner Martin Amis: Time’s Arrow Roddy Doyle: The Van Rohinton Mistry: Such a Long Journey Timothy Mo: The Redundancy of Courage William Trevor: Reading Turgenev.
1992^[1]	Michael Ondaatje	The English Patient	Historiographic metafiction	🇨🇦 Canada	1992 Booker Prize Shared Winners Shortlist: Michael Ondaatje and Barry Unsworth shared the 1992 Booker prize Christopher Hope: Serenity House Patrick McCabe: The Butcher Boy Ian McEwan: Black Dogs Michèle Roberts: Daughters of the House.
1992^[1]	Barry Unsworth	Sacred Hunger	Historical novel	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	1992 Booker Prize Shared Winners Shortlist: Barry Unsworth and Michael Ondaatje were joint winners of the 1992 Booker prize Christopher Hope: Serenity House Patrick McCabe: The Butcher Boy Ian McEwan: Black Dogs Michèle Roberts: Daughters of the House.
1993	Roddy Doyle	Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha	Fiction	🇮🇪 Ireland	1993 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Roddy Doyle was the 1993 Booker prize winner Tibor Fischer: Under the Frog Michael Ignatieff: Scar Tissue. David Malouf: Remembering Babylon Caryl Phillips: Crossing the River Carol Shields: The Stone Diaries.
1994	James Kelman	How Late It Was, How Late	Stream of consciousness	United Kingdom, Scotland	1994 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: James Kelman was the 1994 Booker prize winner Romesh Gunesekera: Reef Abdulrazak Gurnah: Paradise Alan Hollinghurst: The Folding Star George Mackay Brown: Beside the Ocean of Time Jill Paton: Walsh Knowledge of Angels.
1995	Pat Barker	The Ghost Road	War novel	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	1995 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Pat Barker was the 1995 Booker prize winner Justin Cartwright: In Every Face I Meet Salman Rushdie: The Moor’s Last Sigh Barry Unsworth: Morality Play Tim Winton: The Riders.
1996	Graham Swift	Last Orders	Fiction	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	1996 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Graham Swift was the 1996 Booker prize winner Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace Beryl Bainbridge: Every Man for Himself Seamus Deane: Reading in the Dark Shena Mackay: The Orchard on Fire Rohinton Mistry: A Fine Balance.
1997	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things	Fiction	🇮🇳 India	1997 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Arundhati Roy was the 1997 Booker prize winner Jim Crace: Quarantine. Mick Jackson: The Underground Man Bernard MacLaverty: Grace Notes Tim Parks: Europa Madeleine St John: The Essence of the Thing.
1998	Ian McEwan	Amsterdam	Fiction	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	1998 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Ian McEwan was the 1998 Booker prize winner Beryl Bainbridge: Master Georgie Julian Barnes: England, England Martin Booth: The Industry of Souls Patrick McCabe: Breakfast on Pluto Magnus Mills: The Restraint of Beasts.
1999	J. M. Coetzee	Disgrace	Fiction	🇿🇦 South Africa	1999 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: J. M. Coetzee was the 1999 Booker prize winner Anita Desai: Fasting, Feasting Michael Frayn: Headlong Andrew O’Hagan: Our Fathers Ahdaf Soueif: The Map of Love Colm Tóibín: The Blackwater Lightship.
2000	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin	Historical novel	🇨🇦 Canada	2000 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Margaret Atwood was the 2000 Booker prize winner Trezza Azzopardi: The Hiding Place Michael Collins: The Keepers of Truth Kazuo Ishiguro: When We Were Orphans Matthew Kneale: English Passengers Brian O’Doherty: The Deposition of Father McGreevy.
2001	Peter Carey	True History of the Kelly Gang	Historical novel	🇦🇺 Australia	2001 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Peter Carey was the 2001 Booker prize winner Ian McEwan: Atonement Andrew Miller: Oxygen David Mitchell: number9dream Rachel Seiffert: The Dark Room Ali Smith: Hotel World.
2002	Yann Martel	Life of Pi	Fantasy and adventure novel	🇨🇦 Canada	2002 (was the first^[5]) Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Yann Martel was the 2002 Man Booker prize winner Rohinton Mistry: Family Matters Carol Shields: Unless William Trevor: The Story of Lucy Gault Sarah Waters: Fingersmith Tim Winton: Dirt Music.
2003	DBC Pierre	Vernon God Little	Black comedy	🇦🇺Australia	2003 Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: DBC Pierre was the 2003 Man Booker prize winner Monica Ali: Brick Lane. Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake Damon Galgut: The Good Doctor Zoë Heller: Notes on a Scandal Clare Morrall: Astonishing Splashes of Colour.
2004	Alan Hollinghurst	The Line of Beauty	Historical novel	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	2004 Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Alan Hollinghurst was the 2004 Man Booker prize winner Achmat Dangor: Bitter Fruit Sarah Hall: The Electric Michelangelo David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas Colm Tóibín: The Master Gerard Woodward: I’ll Go to Bed at Noon.
2005	John Banville	The Sea	Fiction	🇮🇪 Ireland	2005 Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: John Banville was the 2005 Man Booker prize winner Julian Barnes: Arthur & George Sebastian Barry: A Long Long Way Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go Ali Smith: The Accidental Zadie Smith: On Beauty.
2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss	Fiction	🇮🇳 India	2006 Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Kiran Desai was the 2006 Man Booker prize winner Kate Grenville: The Secret River M. J. Hyland: Carry Me Down Hisham Matar: In the Country of Men Edward St Aubyn: Mother’s Milk Sarah Waters: The Night Watch.
2007	Anne Enright	The Gathering	Fiction	🇮🇪 Ireland	2007 Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Anne Enright was the 2007 Man Booker prize winner Nicola Barker: Darkmans Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist Lloyd Jones: Mister Pip Ian McEwan: On Chesil Beach Indra Sinha: Animal’s People.
2008	Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger	Fiction	🇮🇳 India	2008 Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Aravind Adiga was the 2008 Man Booker prize winner Sebastian Barry: The Secret Scripture Amitav Ghosh: Sea of Poppies Linda Grant: The Clothes on Their Backs Philip Hensher: The Northern Clemency Steve Toltz: A Fraction of the Whole.
2009	Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall.	Historical novel.	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	2009 Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Hilary Mantel was the 2009 Man Booker prize winner A. S. Byatt: The Children’s Book J. M. Coetzee: Summertime Adam Foulds: The Quickening Maze Simon Mawer: The Glass Room Sarah Waters: The Little Stranger
2010	Howard Jacobson	The Finkler Question.	Comic novel.	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	2010 Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Howard Jacobson was the 2010 Man Booker prize winner Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America Emma Donoghue: Room Damon Galgut: In a Strange Room Andrea Levy: The Long Song Tom McCarthy: C.
2011	Julian Barnes	The Sense of an Ending.	Novel.	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	2011 Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Julian Barnes was the 2011 Man Booker prize winner Carol Birch: Jamrach’s Menagerie Patrick deWitt: The Sisters Brothers Esi Edugyan: Half-Blood Blues Stephen Kelman: Pigeon English Andrew D Miller: Snowdrops.
2012	Hilary Mantel^[2]	Bring Up the Bodies.	Historical novel.	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿	2012 Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Hilary Mantel was the 2012 Man Booker prize winner Deborah Levy: Swimming Home Alison Moore: The Lighthouse Will Self: Umbrella Tan Twan Eng: The Garden of Evening Mists Jeet Thayil: Narcopolis.
2013	Eleanor Catton	The Luminaries.	Historical novel.	🇳🇿 New Zealand	2013 Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Eleanor Catton was the 2013 Man Booker prize winner NoViolet Bulawayo: We Need New Names Jim Crace: Harvest) Jhumpa Lahiri: The Lowland) Ruth Ozeki: A Tale for the Time Being Colm Tóibín: The Testament of Mary.
2014	Richard Flanagan	The Narrow Road to the Deep North.	Historical novel.	🇦🇺Australia	2014 Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Richard Flanagan was the 2014 Man Booker prize winner Joshua Ferris: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour Karen Joy Fowler: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Howard Jacobson: J Neel Mukherjee: The Lives of Others Ali Smith: How to Be Both.
2015	Marlon James	The Brief History of Seven Killings.	Historical novel.	🇯🇲 Jamaica	2015 Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Marlon James Man Booker prize winner 2015 Tom McCarthy: Satin Island) Chigozie Obioma: The Fishermen) Sunjeev Sahota: The Year of the Runaways) Anne Tyler: A Spool of Blue Thread) Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life).
2016	Paul Beatty	The Sellout.	Satirical novel.	🇺🇸 USA	2016 Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Paul Beatty was the 2016 Man Booker prize winner Deborah Levy: Hot Milk Graeme Macrae Burnet: His Bloody Project Ottessa Moshfegh: Eileen David Szalay: All That Man Is Madeleine Thien: Do Not Say We Have Nothing.
2017	George Saunders	Lincoln in the Bardo.	Historical/experimental novel.	🇺🇸 USA	2017 Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: George Saunders was the 2017 Man Booker prize winner Ali Smith: Autumn Paul Auster: 4321 *Emily Fridlund: History of Wolves Mohsin Hamid: Exit West Fiona Mozley*: Elmet.
2018	Anna Burns	Milkman.	Fiction.	🇬🇧 United Kingdom, Northern Ireland	2018 (was the last^[5]) Man Booker Prize Winners Shortlist: Anna Burns was the 2018 Man Booker prize winner Robin Robertson: The Long Take *Esi Edugyan: Washington Black Daisy Johnson: Everything Under Rachel Kushner: The Mars Room Richard Powers*: The Overstory.
2019	Margaret Atwood	The Testaments	Science fiction, Dystopian fiction. A sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale.	🇨🇦 Canada	2019 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist was announced 3 September 2019: Margaret Atwood (Canada), The Testaments Lucy Ellmann (USA/UK), Ducks, Newburyport Bernardine Evaristo (UK), Girl, Woman, Other Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria), An Orchestra of Minorities Salman Rushdie (UK/India), Quichotte. Elif Shafak (UK/Turkey), 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Booker Prize longlist 2019: The Booker 2019 Longlist “Booker Dozen” was announced on 27 July 2019: Margaret Atwood (Canada), The Testaments Kevin Barry (Ireland), Night Boat to Tangier Oyinkan Braithwaite (UK/Nigeria), My Sister, The Serial Killer Lucy Ellmann (USA/UK), Ducks, Newburyport Bernardine Evaristo (UK), Girl, Woman, Other John Lanchester (UK), The Wall Deborah Levy (UK), The Man Who Saw Everything Valeria Luiselli (Mexico/Italy), Lost Children Archive Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria), An Orchestra of Minorities Max Porter (UK), Lanny Salman Rushdie (UK/India), Quichotte Elif Shafak (UK/Turkey), 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World Jeanette Winterson (UK), Frankissstein.
2020	Douglas Stuart	Shuggie Bain	Shuggie Bain is Stuart’s debut novel about Shuggie, the youngest of the three children, growing up in Glasgow, Scotland during the 1980’s Thatcher-era, raised by Agnes, his alcoholic mother.	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland / USA 🇺🇸	The 2020 Booker Prize Winners Shortlist was announced on 2 April 2020: Diane Cook (USA), The New Wilderness Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), This Mournable Body Avni Doshi (USA), Burnt Sugar Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia / USA), The Shadow King Douglas Stuart (Scotland / USA), Shuggie Bain Brandon Taylor (USA), Real Life. Booker Prize longlist 2020: The Booker 2020 Longlist “Booker Dozen” was announced on 27 February 2020: Diane Cook (USA), The New Wilderness Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), This Mournable Body Avni Doshi (USA), Burnt Sugar Gabriel Krauze (UK), Who They Was Hilary Mantel (UK), The Mirror & The Light Colum McCann (Ireland / USA), Apeirogon Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia / USA), The Shadow King Kiley Reid (USA), Such a Fun Age Douglas Stuart (Scotland / USA), Shuggie Bain Brandon Taylor (USA), Real Life Anne Tyler (USA), Redhead by The Side of The Road Sophie Ward (UK), Love and Other Thought Experiments Pam Zhang (USA), How Much of These Hills is Gold.
2021	Damon Galgut	The Promise	The Promise follows the Afrikaner Swart family; Manie, his wife Rachel and their children Anton, Astrid, and Amor. The story unfolds at their farm located outside Pretoria spanning four decades, with the death of a family member, in each decade.	🇫🇷 France	The 2021 Booker Prize Winners shortlist was announced on 14 September 2021 (in alphabetical order by surname): Anuk Arudpragasam (Sri Lanka), A Passage North Damon Galgut (South Africa), The Promise Patricia Lockwood (United States), No One Is Talking About This Nadifa Mohamed (Somalia / United Kingdom), The Fortune Men Richard Powers (United States), Bewilderment Maggie Shipstead (United States), Great Circle. Booker Prize longlist 2021: The 2021 Booker Prize Winners Longlist “Booker Dozen” was announced on 27 July 2021 (in alphabetical order by surname): Anuk Arudpragasam (Sri Lanka), A Passage North Rachel Cusk (UK/Canada), Second Place Damon Galgut (South Africa), The Promise Nathan Harris (United States), The Sweetness of Water Kazuo Ishiguro (United Kingdom), Klara and the Sun Karen Jennings (South Africa), An Island Mary Lawson (Canada), A Town Called Solace Patricia Lockwood (United States), No One Is Talking About This Nadifa Mohamed (Somalia / United Kingdom), The Fortune Men Richard Powers (United States), Bewilderment Sunjeev Sahota (United Kingdom), China Room Maggie Shipstead (United States), Great Circle Francis Spufford (United Kingdom), Light Perpetual
2022	Shehan Karunatilaka	The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida	The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida is set in Sri Lanka during the 1980s. A dead photographer (Maali Almeida) is given “seven moons” (a week) during which he can travel between the real world and the afterlife on a mission to locate photographs exposing the brutalities of the Sri Lankan Civil War and to convince his living friends to share them widely.	🇱🇰 Sri Lanka	The 2022 Booker Prize Winners shortlist was announced on 6 September 2022 (in alphabetical order by surname): NoViolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwe/USA), Glory Percival Everett (USA), The Trees Alan Garner (England), Treacle Walker Shehan Karunatilaka (Sri Lanka), The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Claire Keegan (Ireland), Small Things Like These Elizabeth Strout (USA), Oh William! Booker Prize longlist 2022: The 2022 Booker Prize Winners Longlist “Booker Dozen” was announced on 26 July 2022 (in alphabetical order by surname): Audrey Magee (Ireland), The Colony Selby Wynn Schwartz (USA), After Sappho NoViolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwe/USA), Glory Claire Keegan (Ireland), Small Things Like These Leila Mottley (USA), Nightcrawling Maddie Mortimer (England), Maps of our Spectacular Bodies Graeme Macrae Burnet (Scotland), Case Study Alan Garner (England), Treacle Walker Percival Everett (USA), The Trees Hernan Diaz (USA), Trust Shehan Karunatilaka (Sri Lanka), The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Elizabeth Strout (USA), Oh William! Karen Joy Fowler (USA), Booth.
2023	Paul Lynch	Prophet Song	Prophet Song is a dystopian novel which depicts the struggles of the Stack family. Eilish Stack is trying to save her family of 4 as the Republic of Ireland slides into autocracy. The story is told with no paragraph breaks, run-on sentences and dialogue without quotation marks.	🇮🇪 Ireland	The 2023 Booker Prize Winners shortlist was announced on 21 September 2023 (in alphabetical order by surname): Jonathan Escoffery (🇺🇲 USA) If I Survive You Paul Harding (🇺🇲 USA) This Other Eden Paul Lynch (🇮🇪 Ireland) Prophet Song Chetna Maroo (🇰🇪 Kenya/England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿) Western Lane Paul Murray (🇮🇪 Ireland) The Bee Sting Sarah Bernstein (🇨🇦 Canada) Study for Obedience Booker Prize longlist 2023: The 2023 Booker Prize Winners Longlist “Booker Dozen” was announced on 1 August 2023 (in alphabetical order by surname): Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (🇳🇬 Nigeria/England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿) A Spell of Good Things Sebastian Barry (🇮🇪 Ireland) Old God’s Time Tan Twan Eng (🇲🇾 Malaysia) The House of Doors Jonathan Escoffery (🇺🇲 USA) If I Survive You Elaine Feeney (🇮🇪 Ireland) How to Build a Boat Paul Harding (🇺🇲 USA) This Other Eden Siân Hughes (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England) Pearl Paul Lynch (🇮🇪 Ireland) Prophet Song Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿) All the Little Bird-Hearts Martin MacInnes (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland) In Ascension Chetna Maroo (🇰🇪 Kenya/England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿) Western Lane Paul Murray (🇮🇪 Ireland) The Bee Sting Sarah Bernstein (🇨🇦 Canada) Study for Obedience
2024	TBA	TBA	The 2024 Booker Prize Winner will be annouced on 12 November 2024.	TBA	The 2024 Booker Prize Winners shartlist was announced on 16 September 2024 (in alphabetical order by surname): Percival Everett (🇺🇲 USA) James Samantha Harvey (🇬🇧 United Kingdom) Orbital Rachel Kushner (🇺🇲 USA) Creation Lake Anne Michaels (🇨🇦 Canada) Held Yael van der Wouden (🇳🇱 Netherlands) The Safekeep Charlotte Wood (🇦🇺 Australia) Stone Yard Devotional Booker Prize longlist 2024: The 2024 Booker Prize Winners longlist “Booker Dozen” was announced on 30 July 2024 (in alphabetical order by surname): Colin Barrett (🇮🇪 Ireland) Wild Houses Rita Bullwinkel (🇺🇲 USA) Headshot Percival Everett (🇺🇲 USA) James Samantha Harvey (🇬🇧 United Kingdom) Orbital Rachel Kushner (🇺🇲 USA) Creation Lake Hisham Matar (🇬🇧 United Kingdom / Libya 🇱🇾) My Friends Claire Messud (🇨🇦 Canada / USA 🇲🇾) This Strange Eventful History Anne Michaels (🇨🇦 Canada) Held Tommy Orange (🇺🇲 USA) Wandering Stars Sarah Perry (🇬🇧 United Kingdom) Enlightenment Richard Powers (🇺🇲 USA) Playground Yael van der Wouden (🇳🇱 Netherlands) The Safekeep Charlotte Wood (🇦🇺 Australia) Stone Yard Devotional

Booker International Prize Winners List

The Booker International Prize is an annual international literary award for translated fiction^[5]. The award ceremony is usually held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England.

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Year	Author	Title of Work	Translator	Original Language	Country
2005	Ismail Kadare				🇦🇱 Albania
2007	Chinua Achebe				🇳🇬 Nigeria
2009	Alice Munro				🇨🇦 Canada
2011	Philip Roth				🇺🇲 USA
2013	Lydia Davis				🇺🇲 USA
2015	László Krasznahorkai				🇭🇺 Hungary
2016	Han Kang	The Vegetarian.	Deborah Smith	Korean	🇰🇷 South Korea
2017	David Grossman	A Horse Walks Into a Bar.	Jessica Cohen	Hebrew	🇮🇱 Israel
2018	Olga Tokarczuk	Flights.	Jennifer Croft	Polish	🇵🇱 Poland
2019	Jokha al-Harthi	Celestial Bodies.	Marilyn Booth	Arabic	🇴🇲 Oman
2020	Marieke Lucas Rijneveld	The Discomfort of Evening	Michele Hutchison	Dutch	🇳🇱 Netherlands
2021	David Diop	At Night All Blood Is Black (Frère d’âme)	Anna Moschovakis	French	🇫🇷 France
2022	Geetanjali Shree	Tomb of Sand	Daisy Rockwell	Hindi	🇮🇳 India
2023	Georgi Gospodinov	Time Shelter	Angela Rodel	Bulgaria	🇬🇧 UK / USA 🇺🇲
2024	Jenny Erpenbeck	Kairos	Michael Hofmann	Germany	🇩🇪 Germany
2025	TBA	TBA	TBA	–	–

Notes: ^[5]Before 2014 only books written by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Zimbabwe and the Republic of Ireland were eligible.

Special Booker Prize Awards

Booker of Bookers Prize (1993) to celebrate Booker prizes 25 anniversary: Awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight’s Children.
Best of the Booker Prize (2008) to celebrate Booker prizes 40th anniversary: Awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight’s Children following a public vote.
Lost Booker Prize (2010) awarded retrospectively because the eligibility period was changed from the previous year to the current year which meant no novel published in 1970 could win a Booker Prize. Awarded to J. G. Farrell for Troubles following a public vote.
Golden Booker Prize (2018) to celebrate Booker prizes 50th anniversary: Awarded to Michael Ondaatje for The English Patient.

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