Booker Prize
Booker Prize British literary prize. The Booker is the most prestigious award for new English-language novels published by UK, Commonwealth or Irish writers. The annual award generates much media attention, controversy and increased sales for short-listed writers. Recipients of the prize, first presented in 1969, have included Kazuo Ishiguro, Iris Murdoch, V. S. Naipaul and Pat Barker. In 1993 Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children won the ‘Booker of Bookers’.
Year | Writer and title |
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1986 | Kingsley Amis The Old Devils |
1987 | Penelope Lively Moon Tiger |
1988 | Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda |
1989 | Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day |
1990 | A. S. Byatt Possession |
1991 | Ben Okri The Famished Road |
1992 | Michael Ondaatje The English Patient |
Barry Unsworth Sacred Hunger | |
1993 | Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
1994 | James Kelman How Late It Was, How Late |
1995 | Pat Barker The Ghost Road |
1996 | Graham Swift Last Orders |
1997 | Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things |
1998 | Ian McEwan Amsterdam |
1999 | J. M. Coetzee Disgrace |
2000 | Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin |
2001 | Peter Carey The True History of the Kelly Gang |
2002 | Yan Matel Life of Pi |
2003 | DBC Pierre Vernon God Little |
Booker Prize
Booker Prize a literary prize awarded annually for a novel published by a British or Commonwealth citizen during the previous year, financed by the multinational company Booker McConnell. Now known as the Man Booker Prize.
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