List of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize
The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. Winning titles are listed in yellow, first in their year.
The prize has been awarded each year since 1969 to the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. In 2014, it was opened for the first time to any work published in the United Kingdom and written in (not translated into) the English language.
There have been three special awards celebrating the Booker's history. In 1993, the "Booker of Bookers" prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight's Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize's fortieth anniversary, "The Best of the Booker". In 2018 a special "Golden Booker" was awarded celebrating 50 years of the award - this award was won by Michael Ondaatje for The English Patient.
Shortlists
Writers with multiple awards
2 Awards
Writers with multiple nominations
The following writers have received two or more nominations:
6 Nominations
5 Nominations
4 Nominations
- Thomas Keneally
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Ali Smith
- William Trevor
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Julian Barnes
- Peter Carey
3 Nominations
- J. M. Coetzee
- Anita Desai
- Rohinton Mistry
- Colm Toibin
- Muriel Spark
- Doris Lessing
- Kingsley Amis
- Brian Moore
- Penelope Lively
- Barry Unsworth
- Timothy Mo
- Sarah Waters
2 Nominations
- Hilary Mantel
- David Mitchell
- Chigozie Obioma
- Howard Jacobson
- J.G. Farrell
- V.S. Naipaul
- Mordecai Richler
- Nina Bawden
- David Storey
- Andre Brink
- Bernice Rubens
- Julian Rathbone
- Paul Bailey
- J.L. Carr
- Graham Swift
- David Lodge
- John Banville
- James Kelman
- A.S. Byatt
- Roddy Doyle
- Patrick McCabe
- Tim Winton
- Carol Shields
- Alan Hollinghurst
- Sebastian Barry
- Damon Galgut
- Tom McCarthy
- Esi Edugyan
- Deborah Levy
- Jim Crace
- Mohsin Hamid
Notes
- "... in 1971, just two years after it began, the Booker Prize ceased to be awarded retrospectively and became – as it is today – a prize for the best novel of the year of publication. At the same time the award moved from April to November and, as a result, a wealth of fiction published for much of 1970 fell through the net and was never considered for the prize." See "Lost Man Booker Prize shortlist announced". bookerprize.com. Archived from the original on 2 December 2010.
References
- "Toynbee replaced Malcolm Muggeridge midway through the judging process". Booker Prize Archive, Special Collections. Oxford Brookes University. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- (Novella from the collection Two Lives)
- Alan Taylor is an associate editor of the Sunday Herald. He was formerly a board member of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. He edited a diarist collection with his wife Irene that was published in 2011 entitled The Assassin's Cloak.
- "Man Booker Prize 2009 Shortlist announced". Man Booker Prize. Archived from the original on 8 October 2009. Retrieved 8 September 2009.
- "Pulitzer winner makes Booker Prize shortlist". BBC News. 15 September 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
- "Man Booker Prize 2017: shortlist makes room for debuts alongside big names". The Guardian. 13 September 2017. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
- "From 'Everything Under' To 'Overstory': The 2018 Man Booker Prize Shortlist". NPR. 20 September 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
- "Booker Prize 2019 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 4 September 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
External links
- "The Man Booker Prize Archive 1969–2012" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 September 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- Full details of the winners, judges and shortlisted books for all the Booker prizes (1969–2008), The Guardian, 10 October 2008.