Man Booker Prize

Man Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.^[1]The winner of the Man Booker Prize is generally assured of international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade.

In contrast to literary prizes in the United States, the Booker Prize is greeted with great anticipation and fanfare.^] It is also a mark of distinction for authors to be selected for inclusion in the shortlist or even to be nominated for the "longlist".

The incumbent is The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes.

In 1993 to mark the 25th anniversary it was decided to choose a Booker of Bookers Prize. Three previous judges of the award, Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb, met and chose Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as "the best novel out of all the winners".

A similar prize known as The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the prize. A short list of six winners was chosen and the decision was left to a public vote. The winner was again Midnight's Children.

Year	Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country
1969	P. H. Newby	Something to Answer For	Novel	United Kingdom
1970	Bernice Rubens	The Elected Member	Novel	United Kingdom
1970[a]	J. G. Farrell	Troubles	Novel	United Kingdom Ireland
1971	V. S. Naipaul	In a Free State	Short story	United Kingdom Trinidad and Tobago
1972	John Berger	G.	Experimental novel	United Kingdom
1973	J. G. Farrell	The Siege of Krishnapur	Novel	United Kingdom Ireland
1974	Nadine Gordimer	The Conservationist	Novel	South Africa
	Stanley Middleton	Holiday	Novel	United Kingdom
1975	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Heat and Dust	Historical novel	United Kingdom Germany
1976	David Storey	Saville	Novel	United Kingdom
1977	Paul Scott	Staying On	Novel	United Kingdom
1978	Iris Murdoch	The Sea, the Sea	Philosophical novel	Ireland United Kingdom
1979	Penelope Fitzgerald	Offshore	Novel	United Kingdom
1980	William Golding	Rites of Passage	Novel	United Kingdom
1981	Salman Rushdie	Midnight's Children	Magical realism	United Kingdom India
1982	Thomas Keneally	Schindler's Ark	Biographical novel	Australia
1983	J. M. Coetzee	Life & Times of Michael K	Novel	South Africa
1984	Anita Brookner	Hotel du Lac	Novel	United Kingdom
1985	Keri Hulme	The Bone People	Mystery novel	New Zealand
1986	Kingsley Amis	The Old Devils	Comic novel	United Kingdom
1987	Penelope Lively	Moon Tiger	Novel	United Kingdom
1988	Peter Carey	Oscar and Lucinda	Novel	Australia
1989	Kazuo Ishiguro	The Remains of the Day	Historical novel	United Kingdom Japan
1990	A. S. Byatt	Possession	Novel	United Kingdom
1991	Ben Okri	The Famished Road	Magic realism	Nigeria
1992	Michael Ondaatje	The English Patient	Historiographic metafiction	Canada Sri Lanka
	Barry Unsworth	Sacred Hunger	Historical novel	United Kingdom
1993	Roddy Doyle	Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha	Novel	Ireland
1994	James Kelman	How Late It Was, How Late	Stream of consciousness	United Kingdom
1995	Pat Barker	The Ghost Road	War novel	United Kingdom
1996	Graham Swift	Last Orders	Novel	United Kingdom
1997	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things	Novel	India
1998	Ian McEwan	Amsterdam	Novel	United Kingdom
1999	J. M. Coetzee	Disgrace	Novel	South Africa
2000	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin	Novel	Canada
2001	Peter Carey	True History of the Kelly Gang	Historical novel	Australia
2002	Yann Martel	Life of Pi	Fantasy novel	Canada
2003	DBC Pierre	Vernon God Little	Novel	Australia
2004	Alan Hollinghurst	The Line of Beauty	Historical novel	United Kingdom
2005	John Banville	The Sea	Novel	Ireland
2006	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss	Novel	India
2007	Anne Enright	The Gathering	Novel	Ireland
2008	Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger	Novel	India
2009	Hilary Mantel	Wolf Hall	Historical novel	United Kingdom
2010	Howard Jacobson	The Finkler Question	Novel	United Kingdom
2011	Julian Barnes	The Sense of an Ending	Novel	United Kingdom

In 1971, the nature of the Prize was changed so that it was awarded to novels published in that year instead of in the previous year; therefore, no novel published in 1970 could win the Booker Prize. This was rectified in 2010 by the awarding of the "Lost Man Booker Prize" to J. G. Farrell's Troubles.

^{salman rushdi—won best of booker in 40 th anniversary}

^{1981—midnight children}

^{in 1974 and 1992---shared btwn 2 authors}

j.COETZEE(S.AFRICA) WON TWICE BOOKER TWICE. FIRST IN 1983 FOR LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHEAL K......SECOND IN 1999 FOR DISGRACE










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