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 The Booker Prize Winners List &

 Facts about The Booker Prize 

✨1969 - Something to Answer For by an English novelist and broadcasting administrator P. H. Newby

✨1970 - The Elected Member by a welsh novelist Bernice Rubens

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✨1971 - In a Free State by a Trinidadian born British Writer V. S. Naipaul

✨1972 - G. by an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet John Berger

✨1973 - The Siege of Krishnapur by an English born novelist of Irish descent J. G. Farrell

✨1974 - Holiday by a British novelist Stanley Middleton

✨✨1974 - The Conservationist by a South African writer and political activist Nadine Gordimer

✨1975 - Heat and Dust by a British and American Novelist and Screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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✨1976 - Saville by an English playwright, screenwriter and novelist David Storey

✨1977 - Staying On by an English novelist Paul Scott

✨1978 - The Sea, the Sea by an Irish and British novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch

✨1979 - Offshore by an English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer Penelope Fitzgerald

✨1980 - Rites of Passage by a British novelist, playwright, and poet William Golding

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✨1981 - Midnight's Children by an Indian-born British-American novelist Salman Rushdie

✨1982 - Schindler's Ark by an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor Thomas Keneally

✨1983 - Life & Times of Michael K by a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist and translator J. M. Coetzee

✨1984 - Hotel du Lac by an English novelist and art historian Anita Brookner

✨1985 - The Bone People by a New Zealand novelist, poet and short-story writer Keri Hulme

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✨1986 - The Old Devils by an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher Kingsley Amis

✨1987 - Moon Tiger by a British writer Penelope Lively

✨1988 - Oscar and Lucinda by an Australian novelist Peter Carey

✨1989 - The Remains of the Day by a Japanese-born British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer Kazuo Ishiguro

✨1990 - Possession by an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer A. S. Byatt

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✨1991 - The Famished Road by a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist Ben Okri

✨1992 - The English Patient by a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist Michael Ondaatje

✨✨1992 - Sacred Hunger by an English writer Barry Unsworth

✨1993 - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter Roddy Doyle

✨1994 - How Late It Was, How Late by a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist James Kelman

✨1995 - The Ghost Road by a British writer and novelist Pat Barker

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✨1996 - Last Orders by a British writer Graham Swift

✨1997 - The God of Small Things by an Indian writer Arundhati Roy

✨1998 - Amsterdam by a British novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan

✨1999 - Disgrace by a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator J. M. Coetzee

✨2000 - The Blind Assassin by a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic Margaret Atwood

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✨2001 - True History of the Kelly Gang by an Australian novelist Peter Carey

✨2002 - Life of Pi by a Canadian author Yann Martel

✨2003 - Vernon God Little by an Australian writer DBC Pierre

✨2004 - The Line of Beauty by an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator Alan Hollinghurst

✨2005 - The Sea by an Irish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter John Banville

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✨2006 - The Inheritance of Loss by an Indian author Kiran Desai

✨2007 - The Gathering by an Irish writer Anne Enright

✨2008 - The White Tiger by an Indian writer and journalist Aravind Adiga

✨2009 - Wolf Hall by a British writer Hilary Mantel

✨2010 - The Finkler Question by a British novelist and journalist Howard Jacobson

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✨2011 - The Sense of an Ending by an English writer Julian Barnes

✨2012 - Bring Up the Bodies by a British writer Hilary Mantel

✨2013 - The Luminaries by a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter Eleanor Catton

✨2014 - The Narrow Road to the Deep North by an Australian writer, film director and screenwriter Richard Flanagan

✨2015 - A Brief History of Seven Killings by a Jamaican writer Marlon James

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✨2016 - The Sellout by an American author and an associate professor Paul Beatty

✨2017 - Lincoln in the Bardo by an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels George Saunders

✨2018 - Milkman by an Irish novelist Anna Burns

✨2019 - The Testaments by a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic Margaret Atwood

✨✨2019 - Girl, Woman, Other by a British writer Bernardine Evaristo

✨2020 - Shuggie Bain by a Scottish-American writer and fashion designer Douglas Stuart

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✨2021 - The Promise by a South African novelist and playwright Damon Galgut

✨2022 - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by a Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka

✨2023 - Prophet Song by an Irish novelist Paul Lynch

Facts about The Booker Prize 

👉 The Booker Prize used to be called the Booker Prize for Fiction from 1969 to 2001 and the Man Booker Prize from 2002 to 2019.

👉When The Booker Prize was first created, only novels written by citizens of the Commonwealth, Ireland, South Africa, and later Zimbabwe, were eligible to receive it.

👉 In 2014, eligibility was widened. Now, authors from any country can win the Booker Prize if their book is written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.

👉 The Booker Prize is a prestigious literary award given every year for the best fiction book written in English. 

👉A five-person panel, which changes each year, is appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation to select the winning book. This panel includes authors, publishers, journalists, and sometimes politicians, actors, artists, and musicians. Each judge is expected to read all of the books that have been submitted.

👉 The prize money awarded with the Booker Prize was originally £5,000. In 1978, this amount was increased to £10,000. Then in 2002, with sponsorship from the Man Group, the prize money was raised to £50,000, making it one of the most valuable literary awards in the world.

👉The Booker Prize winner received international publicity, which typically leads to a significant boost in sales.

👉Each of the shortlisted authors receives £2,500.

🤩 Four authors have won the Booker Prize more than once. 

1 :-) J.M. Coetzee was the first to win it twice, in 1983 and 1999. In 1983 for Life & Times of Michael K and in 1999 for Disgrace. 

2 :-) Peter Carey won in 1988 and 2001. In 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda and in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang.

3 :-) Hilary Mantel won in 2009 and 2012. In 2009 for Wolf Hall and in 2012 for Bringing Up the Bodies.

4 :-) Margaret Atwood won in 2000 and 2019. In 2000 for The Blind Assassin and in 2019 for The Testaments.

✨Salman Rushdie has been nominated seven times for the Booker Prize. He won The Booker Prize in 1981 for Midnight’s Children.

✨Margaret Atwood, J.M. Coetzee, Iris Murdoch and Ian McEwan have each been nominated for the Booker Prize six times.

💫 Eleanor Catton became the youngest winner of the Booker Prize in 2013 at the age of 28. Kiran Desai was previously the youngest woman to win the Booker Prize, winning in 2006 at the age of 35.

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