Booker Prize: Winners from 1969 to 1996

• The Booker Prize is a prestigious literary award established in 1969.
• It is presented annually.
• It recognizes the best original novel written in the English language.
• Novels must be published in the UK or Ireland to be eligible.
• The award has recognized numerous distinguished authors over the years.

Booker Prize Winners (1969-1996)

• 1969: P.H. Newby, Something to Answer For
• 1970: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
• 1971: V.S. Naipaul, In a Free State
• 1972: John Berger, G.
• 1973: J.G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
• 1974: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist
• 1974: Stanley Middleton, Holiday
• 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
• 1976: David Storey, Saville
• 1977: Paul Scott, Staying On
• 1978: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
• 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
• 1980: William Golding, Rites of Passage
• 1981: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
• 1982: Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark
• 1983: J.M. Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K
• 1984: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
• 1985: Keri Hulme, The Bone People
• 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
• 1992: 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

Booker Prize Winners (1997-2024)

• 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, True History of the Kelly Gang
• 2002: Yann Martel, Life of Pi
• 2003: DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
• 2004: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
• 2005: John Banville, The Sea
• 2006: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
• 2007: Anne Enright, The Gathering
• 2008: Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
• 2009: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
• 2010: Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
• 2011: Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
• 2012: Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
• 2013: Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
• 2014: Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
• 2015: Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings
• 2016: Paul Beatty, The Sellout
• 2017: George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
• 2018: Anna Burns, Milkman
• 2019: Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other
• 2019: Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
• 2020: Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain
• 2021: Damon Galgut, The Promise
• 2022: Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
• 2023: Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
• 2024: Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Additional Information

• Some years had joint winners, like 1974 and 1992.
• J.M. Coetzee, Peter Carey, Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood have won the prize multiple times.
• Samantha Harvey won in 2024 for "Orbital".
• Orbital is set on the International Space Station.
• It explores themes of Earth's beauty and human existence.

Notable Booker Prize Winners

• 2023: Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
• 2022: Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
• 2021: Damon Galgut, The Promise
• 2020: Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain
• 2019: Margaret Atwood & Bernardine Evaristo, The Testaments & Girl, Woman, Other (Joint winners)
• 2013: Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (Youngest winner at 28)
• 2007: Anne Enright, The Gathering
• 2002: Yann Martel, Life of Pi
• 1997: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (First Indian winner)
• 1990: A. S. Byatt, Possession
• 1981: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (One of the greatest Booker winners ever)
• 1978: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea
• 1970: J. G. Farrell, Troubles (Awarded in 2010 as part of the "Lost Booker Prize" initiative)
• 1969: P. H. Newby, Something to Answer For (First-ever winner of the Booker Prize)