Booker Prize / Best Novel
Winner and nominated novels for the Booker Prize . The award was reserved for authors from the United Kingdom , Ireland or the Commonwealth from 1969 to 2013 . Since it was awarded in 2014, the Booker Prize has been open to English-language novels published in the UK .
British authors received the most awards (28 victories, including writers with dual nationalities such as JG Farrell , Iris Murdoch or VS Naipaul ), followed by their colleagues from Australia and Ireland (five successes each), India, Canada and South Africa (three each) and New Zealand (two wins). Since 2001 the books in the pre-selection ("longlist") have been published, which have made up six to seven other titles in the past few years.
As the only author of a short story collection to date, the Canadian Alice Munro was shortlisted for The Beggar Maid in 1980 , but without winning the award.
| statistics | Surname | number | year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most frequent awards | Margaret Atwood | 2 | 2000, 2019 |
| Peter Carey | 2 | 1988, 2001 | |
| JM Coetzee | 2 | 1983, 1999 | |
| Hilary coat | 2 | 2009, 2012 | |
| Most frequent nominations (* = victory) |
Margaret Atwood | 6th | 1986, 1989, 1996, 2000 *, 2003, 2019 * |
| Iris Murdoch | 6th | 1969, 1970, 1973, 1978 *, 1985, 1987 | |
| Most frequent nominations without a win | Beryl Bainbridge | 5 | 1973, 1974, 1990, 1996, 1998 |
Award winners and nominees on the shortlist
The winners are highlighted in color at the top of each year. In 1974 and 1992, the jury could not agree on a winner and awarded two novels each.
| year | Prize winner | novel | German title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | PH Newby | Something to Answer For | not known |
| Barry England | Figures in a Landscape | The escape | |
| Nicholas Mosley | Impossible Object | not known | |
| Iris Murdoch | The Nice and the Good | All fine people | |
| Muriel Spark | The public image | In the public eye | |
| GM Williams | From Scenes like These | not known | |
| 1970 | Bernice Rubens | The Elected Member | not known |
| AL Barker | John Brown's Body | not known | |
| Elizabeth Bowen | Eva Trout | His only daughter | |
| Iris Murdoch | Bruno's Dream | not known | |
| William Trevor | Mrs. Eckdorf at O'Neill's Hotel | not known | |
| TW Wheeler | The Conjunction | not known | |
| 1971 | VS Naipaul | In a free state | In a free country |
| Thomas Kilroy | The Big Chapel | not known | |
| Doris Lessing | Briefing for a Descent into Hell | Instruction for a descent to hell | |
| Mordecai Richler | St Urbain's Horseman | Jakob Hersch's dream | |
| Derek Robinson | Goshawk Squadron | not known | |
| Elizabeth Taylor | Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont | not known | |
| 1972 | John Berger | G. | G. |
| Susan Hill | The Bird of Night | not known | |
| Thomas Keneally | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | not known | |
| David Storey | Pasmore | not known | |
| 1973 | JG Farrell | The Siege of Krishnapur | The Siege of Krishnapur |
| Beryl Bainbridge | The dressmaker | not known | |
| Elizabeth Mavor | The Green Equinox | not known | |
| Iris Murdoch | The Black Prince | The black prince | |
| 1974 | Nadine Gordimer | The Conservationist | The owner |
| Stanley Middleton | Holiday | not known | |
| Kingsley Amis | Ending up | not known | |
| Beryl Bainbridge | The Bottle Factory Outing | The flight | |
| CP Snow | In Their Wisdom | not known | |
| 1975 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Heat and Dust | Heat and dust |
| Thomas Keneally | Gossip from the Forest | not known | |
| 1976 | David Storey | Saville | not known |
| André Brink | An instant in the wind | Voices in the wind | |
| RC Hutchinson | Rising | not known | |
| Brian Moore | The Doctor's Wife | The doctor's wife | |
| Julian Rathbone | King Fisher Lives | not known | |
| William Trevor | The Children of Dynmouth | The children of Dynmouth | |
| 1977 | Paul Scott | Staying on | Aftermath |
| Paul Bailey | Peter Smart's Confessions | not known | |
| Caroline Blackwood | Great Granny Webster | Great-grandma Webster | |
| Jennifer Johnston | Shadows on our skin | not known | |
| Penelope Lively | The Road to Lichfield | One step off the path | |
| Barbara Pym | Quartet in Autumn | Quartet in autumn | |
| 1978 | Iris Murdoch | The Sea, the Sea | The sea, the sea |
| Kingsley Amis | Jake's Thing | not known | |
| André Brink | Rumors of Rain | not known | |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | The Bookshop | The bookstore | |
| Jane Gardam | God on the Rocks | not known | |
| Bernice Rubens | God on the Rocks | not known | |
| 1979 | Penelope Fitzgerald | Offshore | A houseboat on the Thames |
| Thomas Keneally | Confederates | not known | |
| VS Naipaul | A bend in the river | At the bend of the great river | |
| Julian Rathbone | Joseph | not known | |
| Fay Weldon | practice | The ceiling of happiness | |
| 1980 | William Golding | Rites of Passage | Equator Baptism |
| Anthony Burgess | Earthly Powers | The prince of phantoms | |
| JL Carr | A Month in the Country | A month in the country | |
| Anita Desai | Clear Light of Day | In the bright light of day | |
| Alice Munro | The Beggar Maid | The beggar girl | |
| Julia O'Faolain | No Country for Young Men | not known | |
| Barry Unsworth | Pascali's Island | Pascali's island | |
| 1981 | Salman Rushdie | Midnight's Children | Midnight children |
| Molly Keane | Good behavior | Bad story | |
| Doris Lessing | The Sirian Experiments | The Sirian Trials | |
| Ian McEwan | The Comfort of Strangers | The comfort of strangers | |
| Ann Schlee | Rhine Journey | not known | |
| Muriel Spark | Loitering with intent | Loitering on purpose | |
| DM Thomas | The White Hotel | The white hotel | |
| 1982 | Thomas Keneally | Schindler's Ark | Schindlers List |
| John Arden | Silence Among the Weapons | not known | |
| William Boyd | Ice-Cream War | For dessert war / the ice cream war | |
| Lawrence Durrell | Constance or Solitary Practices | Constance or private practices | |
| Alice Thomas Ellis | The 27th Kingdom | not known | |
| Timothy Mo | Sour Sweet | not known | |
| 1983 | JM Coetzee | Life & Times of Michael K | Life and time of Michael K. |
| Malcolm Bradbury | Rates of Exchange | Exchange rates | |
| John Fuller | Flying to Nowhere | Dream about flying | |
| Anita Mason | The illusionist | not known | |
| Salman Rushdie | Shame | Shame and shame | |
| Graham Swift | Waterland | Water land | |
| 1984 | Anita Brookner | Hotel du Lac | Hotel du Lac |
| JG Ballard | Empire of the Sun | The realm of the sun | |
| Julian Barnes | Flaubert's Parrot | Flaubert's parrot | |
| Anita Desai | In custody | The keeper of true friendship | |
| Penelope Lively | According to Mark | not known | |
| David Lodge | Small World | scavenger hunt | |
| 1985 | Keri Hulme | The Bone People | Under the day moon |
| Peter Carey | Illywhacker | Illywhacker | |
| JL Carr | The Battle of Pollocks Crossing | not known | |
| Doris Lessing | The Good Terrorist | The terrorist | |
| Jan Morris | Last letters from Hav | not known | |
| Iris Murdoch | The Good Apprentice | In good faith | |
| 1986 | Kingsley Amis | The Old Devils | not known |
| Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale | The maid's report | |
| Paul Bailey | Gabriel's lament | not known | |
| Robertson Davies | What's Bred in the Bone | What you inherit from your fathers ... | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | An Artist of the Floating World | The painter of the flowing world | |
| Timothy Mo | An insular possession | not known | |
| 1987 | Penelope Lively | Moon tiger | Moon tiger |
| Chinua Achebe | Anthills of the Savannah | Termite mounds in the savannah | |
| Peter Ackroyd | Chatterton | Chatterton | |
| Nina Bawden | Circles of Deceit | Art of deception | |
| Brian Moore | The Color of Blood | The color of the blood | |
| Iris Murdoch | The Book and the Brotherhood | not known | |
| 1988 | Peter Carey | Oscar and Lucinda | Oscar and Lucinda |
| Bruce Chatwin | Utz | Utz | |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | The beginning of spring | Beginning of spring | |
| David Lodge | Nice work | Good work | |
| Salman Rushdie | The Satanic Verses | The satanic verses | |
| Marina Warner | The Lost Father | The lost father | |
| 1989 | Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day | What was left of the day |
| Margaret Atwood | Cat's eye | Cat's eye | |
| John Banville | The Book of Evidence | The Book of Evidence | |
| Sybille Bedford | Jigsaw | Jigsaw | |
| James Kelman | A disaffection | Seven days in the life of a rebel | |
| Rose Tremain | Restoration | The king's fool | |
| 1990 | AS Byatt | Possession: A Romance | Obsessed |
| Beryl Bainbridge | An Awfully Big Adventure | A factual romance | |
| Penelope Fitzgerald | The Gate of Angels | The angel gate | |
| John McGahern | Amongst Women | Among women | |
| Brian Moore | Reads of Silence | Dillon | |
| Mordecai Richler | Solomon Gursky Was Here | Solomon Gursky was here | |
| 1991 | Ben Okri | The Famished Road | The hungry street |
| Martin Amis | Time's Arrow | Arrow of time | |
| Roddy Doyle | The Van | Fish & Chips | |
| Rohinton Mistry | Find a long journey | Such a long journey | |
| Timothy Mo | The redundancy of courage | not known | |
| William Trevor | Reading Turgenev | Turgenev's shadow | |
| 1992 | Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient | The English patient |
| Barry Unsworth | Sacred hunger | The slave ship | |
| Christopher Hope | Serenity House | The joys of transience | |
| Patrick McCabe | The Butcher Boy | The butcher boy | |
| Ian McEwan | Black Dogs | Black dogs | |
| Michèle Roberts | Daughters of the House | not known | |
| 1993 | Roddy Doyle | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
| Tibor Fischer | Under the frog | Stalin or me | |
| Michael Ignatieff | Scar tissue | The lights on the bridge of a sinking ship | |
| David Malouf | Remembering Babylon | Beyond Babylon | |
| Caryl Phillips | Crossing the river | Beyond the river | |
| Carol Shields | The Stone Diaries | The Diary of Daisy Goodwill | |
| 1994 | James Kelman | How late it was, how late | It was late, so late |
| Romesh Gunesekera | Reef | reef | |
| Abdulrazak Gurnah | Paradise | Paradise lost | |
| Alan Hollinghurst | The Folding Star | not known | |
| George Mackay Brown | Beside the Ocean of Time | Good-for-nothing and poet's dream | |
| Jill Paton Walsh | Knowledge of Angels | The knowledge of the angels | |
| 1995 | Pat Barker | The Ghost Road | The street of the spirits |
| Justin Cartwright | In Every Face I Meet | not known | |
| Salman Rushdie | The Moor's Last Sigh | The Moors last sigh | |
| Barry Unsworth | Morality Play | The masks of truth | |
| Tim Winton | The Riders | Driven | |
| 1996 | Graham Swift | Last orders | Last round |
| Margaret Atwood | Aka Grace | Aka Grace | |
| Beryl Bainbridge | Every Man for Himself | Night light | |
| Seamus Deane | Reading in the Dark | Read in the dark | |
| Shena Mackay | The Orchard on Fire | The burning orchard | |
| Rohinton Mistry | A fine balance | The balance of the world | |
| 1997 | Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things | The god of little things |
| Jim Crace | Quarantine | The temptation in the desert | |
| Mick Jackson | The Underground Man | The underground man | |
| Bernard MacLaverty | Grace notes | Anna's song | |
| Tim Parks | Europe | Europe | |
| Madeleine St John | The Essence of the Thing | One love in Notting Hill | |
| 1998 | Ian McEwan | Amsterdam | Amsterdam |
| Beryl Bainbridge | Master Georgie | Master Georgie | |
| Julian Barnes | England, England | England, England | |
| Martin Booth | The Industry of Souls | Shurik's birthday | |
| Patrick McCabe | Breakfast on Pluto | Breakfast on Pluto | |
| Magnus Mills | The Restraint of Beasts | The masters of the fences | |
| 1999 | JM Coetzee | Disgrace | shame |
| Anita Desai | Fasting, feasting | not known | |
| Michael Frayn | Headlong | The lost picture | |
| Andrew O'Hagan | Our Fathers | Dark heart | |
| Ahdaf Soueif | The Map of Love | The map of love | |
| Colm Tóibín | The Blackwater Lightship | The Blackwater lightship | |
| 2000 | Margaret Atwood | The Blind Assassin | The blind killer |
| Trezza Azzopardi | The hiding place | The hiding place | |
| Michael Collins | The Keepers of Truth | Deadly headlines | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | When We Were Orphans | When we were orphans | |
| Matthew Kneale | English Passengers | English passengers | |
| Brian O'Doherty | The Deposition of Father McGreevy | Records of a country pastor | |
| 2001 | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang | The real story of Ned Kelly and his gang |
| Ian McEwan | Atonement | Apology | |
| Andrew Miller | Oxygen | Ten or fifteen of the happiest moments in life | |
| David Mitchell | number9dream | Number 9 dream | |
| Rachel Seiffert | The Dark Room | The dark chamber | |
| Ali Smith | Hotel World | At the hotel | |
| 2002 | Yann Martel | Life of Pi | Shipwreck with Tiger |
| Rohinton Mistry | Family Matters | The squaring of happiness | |
| Carol Shields | Unless | The story of Reta Winters | |
| William Trevor | The Story of Lucy Gault | The story of Lucy Gault | |
| Sarah Waters | Fingersmith | As long as you lie | |
| Tim Winton | Dirt Music | The singing tree | |
| 2003 | Pierre DBC | Vernon God Little | Jesus of Texas |
| Monica Ali | Brick Lane | Brick Lane | |
| Margaret Atwood | Oryx and Crake | Oryx and Crake | |
| Damon Galgut | The Good Doctor | The good doctor | |
| Zoë Heller | Notes on a Scandal | Diary of a seduction / diary of a scandal | |
| Clare Morrall | Astonishing Splashes of Color | Portrait of an invisible woman | |
| 2004 | Alan Hollinghurst | The Line of Beauty | The beauty line |
| Achmat Dangor | Bitter fruit | not known | |
| Sarah Hall | The Electric Michelangelo | The electric Michelangelo | |
| David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | The cloud atlas | |
| Colm Tóibín | The Master | Portrait of the middle-aged master | |
| Gerard Woodward | I'll Go to Bed at Noon | not known | |
| 2005 | John Banville | The Sea | The sea |
| Julian Barnes | Arthur & George | Arthur & George | |
| Sebastian Barry | A long long way | It's a long, long way | |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go | Everything we had to give | |
| Ali Smith | The Accidental | The random one | |
| Zadie Smith | On beauty | From the beauty | |
| 2006 | Kiran Desai | The inheritance of loss | Heir to the lost land |
| Kate Grenville | The Secret River | The hidden river | |
| MJ Hyland | Carry me down | The list of lies | |
| Hisham Matar | In the Country of Men | In the land of men | |
| Edward St. Aubyn | Mother's Milk | Breast milk | |
| Sarah Waters | The Night Watch | The women of London | |
| 2007 | Anne Enright | The Gathering | The family reunion |
| Nicola Barker | Darkmans | not known | |
| Mohsin Hamid | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | The fundamentalist who didn't want to be | |
| Lloyd Jones | Mister Pip | Mister Pip | |
| Ian McEwan | On Chesil Beach | At the beach | |
| Indra Sinha | Animal's People | Human animal | |
| 2008 | Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger | The White tiger |
| Sebastian Barry | The Secret Scripture | A hidden life | |
| Amitav Ghosh | Sea of Poppies | The poppy red sea | |
| Linda Grant | The Clothes on Their Backs | not known | |
| Philip Hensher | The Northern Clemency | not known | |
| Steve Toltz | A Fraction of the Whole | Parricide and other family pleasures | |
| 2009 | Hilary coat | Wolf Hall | Wolves |
| AS Byatt | The Children's Book | Children's book | |
| JM Coetzee | Summertime | Summer of life | |
| Adam Foulds | The Quickening Maze | not known | |
| Simon Mawer | The Glass Room | not known | |
| Sarah Waters | The Little Stranger | The visitor | |
| 2010 | Howard Jacobson | The Finkler Question | The Finkler question |
| Peter Carey | Parrot and Olivier in America | Parrot and Olivier in America | |
| Emma Donoghue | Room | room | |
| Damon Galgut | In a strange room | In strange rooms | |
| Andrea Levy | The Long Song | The long song of a lifetime | |
| Tom McCarthy | C. | K. | |
| 2011 | Julian Barnes | The Sense of an Ending | From the end of a story |
| Carol Birch | Jamrach's menagerie | The breath of the world | |
| Patrick deWitt | The Sisters Brothers | The Sisters Brothers | |
| Esi Edugyan | Half-Blood Blues | Play it again | |
| Stephen Kelman | Pigeon English | Pigeon English | |
| AD Miller | Snowdrops | The freezing season of love | |
| 2012 | Hilary coat | Bring up the bodies | Hawks |
| Deborah Levy | Swimming home | Swim home | |
| Alison Moore | The lighthouse | not known | |
| Will Self | Umbrella | umbrella | |
| Tan Twan Eng | The Garden of Evening Mists | The garden of the evening mist | |
| Jeet Thayil | Narcopolis | Narcopolis | |
| 2013 | Eleanor Catton | The Luminaries | The stars |
| NoViolet Bulawayo | We need new names | We need new names | |
| Jim Crace | Harvest | not known | |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | The Lowland | The lowlands | |
| Ruth Ozeki | A Tale for the Time Being | Story for a moment | |
| Colm Tóibín | The Testament of Mary | Mary's will | |
| 2014 | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | The narrow path through the hinterland |
| Joshua Ferris | To Rise Again at a Decent Hour | My strange life | |
| Karen Joy Fowler | We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves | The fabulous sisters of the Cooke family | |
| Howard Jacobson | J | J | |
| Neel Mukherjee | The Lives of Others | In other hearts | |
| Ali Smith | How to Be Both | Be both | |
| 2015 | Marlon James | A Brief History of Seven Killings | A brief history of seven murders |
| Tom McCarthy | Satin Island | Satin Island | |
| Chigozie Obioma | The fishermen | The dark river | |
| Sunjeev Sahota | The Year of the Runaways | not known | |
| Anne Tyler | A spool of blue thread | The bright blue thread | |
| Hanya Yanagihara | A little life | A little life | |
| 2016 | Paul Beatty | The Sellout | The traitor |
| Deborah Levy | Hot milk | Hot milk | |
| Graeme Macrae Burnet | His Bloody Project | His bloody project | |
| Ottessa Moshfegh | Eileen | Eileen | |
| David Szalay | All That Man Is | What a man is | |
| Madeleine Thien | Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Don't say we don't have anything | |
| 2017 | George Saunders | Lincoln in the Bardo | Lincoln in the bardo |
| Paul Auster | 4 3 2 1 | 4 3 2 1 | |
| Emily Fridlund | History of Wolves | A story of the wolves | |
| Mohsin Hamid | Exit West | Exit West | |
| Fiona Mozley | Elmet | not known | |
| Ali Smith | Autumn | autumn | |
| 2018 | Anna Burns | Milkman | not known |
| Esi Edugyan | Washington Black | Washington Black | |
| Daisy Johnson | Everything Under | not known | |
| Rachel Kushner | The Mars Room | I am a destiny | |
| Richard Powers | The overstory | The roots of life | |
| Robin Robertson | The Long Take | not known | |
| 2019 | Margaret Atwood | The Testaments | The witnesses |
| Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, woman, other | not known | |
| Lucy Ellmann | Ducks, Newburyport | not known | |
| Chigozie Obioma | To Orchestra of Minorities | The crying of the birds | |
| Salman Rushdie | Quixote | Quixote | |
| Elif Shafak | 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World | Unheard of voices |
Web links
- Backlist of previous winners on the official website
Individual evidence
- ^ The big novels of 2012 . theguardian.com, July 13, 2012; accessed on March 17, 2016.
- ↑ autumn . In: buchhandel.de; accessed on June 27, 2019.
- ↑ Washington Black . In: buchhandel.de; accessed on June 27, 2019.
- ↑ DNB 1171462867 I am a fate .