Man Booker Prize for Fiction Winners Year Author Title Genre(s) Nationality 1969 P. H. Newby Something to Answer For Novel United Kingdom 1970 Bernice Rubens The Elected Member Novel United Kingdom 1970 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 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 1990 A. S. Byatt Possession Historical novel United Kingdom 1991 Ben Okri The Famished Road Magic realism Nigeria 1992 Michael Ondaatje The English Patient Historiographic metafiction Canada 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 Historical novel Canada 2001 Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang Historical novel Australia 2002 Yann Martel Life of Pi Fantasy and adventure novel Canada 2003 DBC Pierre Vernon God Little Black comedy 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 Comic novel United Kingdom 2011 Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending Novel United Kingdom 2012 Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies Historical novel United Kingdom 2013 Eleanor Catton The Luminaries Historical novel New Zealand
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