Winners and Shortlists of the Booker Prize for Fiction 2005-1969

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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction was founded in 1968 by Booker Brothers. Administered since 2002 by the Booker Prize Foundation in the United Kingdom, this prestigious award is given to the best full-length novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom by a citizen of the Commonwealth or Republic of Ireland. The Prize is worth 50,000 GBP to the winner. Each shortlisted author will receive 2,500 GBP in addition to a leather bound copy of his or her own book. Many Booker Prize Winners go on to receive other literary awards such as the Nobel Prize in Literature!

2005 The 2005 winner will be announced October 10 Winner! The Sea by John Banville     Arthur & George by Julian Barnes     A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry     Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro     The Accidental by Ali Smith     On Beauty by Zadie Smith

2004 Winner! The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst     Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor     The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall     Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell     The Master by Colm Toibin     I'll go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward

2003 Winner! Vernon God Little by D B C Pierre   Brick Lane by Monica Ali     Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood     The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut     Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller     Astonishing Splashes Of Colour by Clare Morrall

2002 Winner! Life of Pi by Yann Martel   Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry     Unless by Carol Shields     The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor     Fingersmith by Sarah Waters     Dirt Music by Tim Winton

2001 Winner! True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Atonement by Ian McEwan Oxygen by Andrew Miller Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert Hotel World by Ali Smith

2000 Winner! The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood The Hiding Place by Trezza Azzopardi The Keepers of Truth by Michael Collins When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro English Passengers by Matthew Kneale The Deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty

1999 Winner! Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai Headlong by Michael Frayn Our Fathers by Andrew O'Hagan The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin

1998 Winner! Amsterdam by Ian McEwan Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge England, England by Julian Barnes The Industry of Souls by Martin Booth Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills

1997 Winner! The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy The Essence of the Thing by Madeleine St. John Grace Notes by Bernard MacLaverty The Underground Man by Mick Jackson Europa by Tim Parks Quarantine by Jim Crace

1996 Winner! Last Orders by Graham Swift Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry The Orchard on Fire by Shena Mackay

1995 Winner! The Ghost Road by Pat Barker In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie Morality Play by Barry Unsworth The Riders by Tim Winton

1994 Winner! How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman Beside the Ocean of Time by George Mackay Brown Reef by Romesh Gunesekera The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst Knowledge of Angels by Jill Paton Walsh

1993 Winner! Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer Remembering Babylon by David Malouf Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

1992 Co-Winner! The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Co-Winner! Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth Serenity House by Christopher Hope The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe Black Dogs by Ian McEwan Daughters of the House by Michele Roberts

1991 Winner! The Famished Road by Ben Okri Time's Arrow by Martin Amis The Van by Roddy Doyle Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo Reading Turgenev by William Trevor

1990 Winner! Possession by A.S. Byatt An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald Amongst Women by John McGahern Lies of Silence by Brian Moore Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler

1989 Winner! The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood The Book of Evidence by John Banville Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education by Sybille Bedford A Disaffection by James Kelman Restoration by Rose Tremain

1988 Winner! Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey Utz by Bruce Chatwin The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald Nice Work by David Lodge The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie The Lost Father by Marina Warner

1987 Winner! Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd Circles of Deceit by Nina Bawden The Colour of Blood by Brian Moore The Book and the Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch

1986 Winner! The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Gabriel's Lament by Paul Bailey What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro Insular Possession by Timothy Mo

1985 Winner! The Bone People by Keri Hulme Illywhacker by Peter Carey The Battle of Pollock's Crossing by J.L. Carr The Good Terrorist by Doris Lessing Last Letters from Hav by Jan Morris The Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch

1984 Winner! Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes In Custody by Anita Desai According to Markby Penelope Lively Small World by David Lodge

1983 Winner! Life and Times of Michael K. by J. M. Coetzee Rates of Exchange by Malcolm Bradbury Flying to Nowhere by John Fuller The Illusionist by Anita Mason Shame by Salman Rushdie Waterland by Graham Swift

1982 Winner! Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally Silence Among the Weapons by John Arden An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd Constance or Solitary Practices by Lawrence Durrell The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo

1981 Winner! Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie Good Behaviour by Molly Keane The Sirian Experiments by Doris Lessing The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan Rhine Journey by Anne Schlee Loitering with Intent by Muriel Spark The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas

1980 Winner! Rites of Passage by William Golding Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro No Country for Young Men by Julia O'Faolain Pascali's Island by Barry Unsworth

1979 Winner! Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald Confederates by Thomas Keneally A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul Joseph by Julian Rathbone Praxis by Fay Weldon

1978 Winner! The Sea by Iris Murdoch Jake's Thing by Kingsley Amis Rumours of Rain by Andre Brink The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald God on the Rocks by Jane Gardam A Five-Year Sentence by Bernice Rubens

1977 Winner! Staying On by Paul Scott Peter Smart's Confessions by Paul Bailey Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood Shadows on Our Skin by Jennifer Johnston The Road to Lichfield by Penelope Lively Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

1976 Winner! Saville by David Storey An Instant in the Wind by Andre Brink Rising by R.C. Hutchinson The Doctor's Wife by Brian Moore King Fisher Lives by Julian Rathbone The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor

1975 Winner! Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Gossip from the Forest by Thomas Keneally

1974 Co-Winner! The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer Co-Winner! Holiday by Stanley Middleton Ending Up by Kingsley Amis The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge In Their Wisdom by C.P. Snow

1973 Winner! The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge The Green Equinox by Elizabeth Mavor The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch

1972 Winner! G by John Berger The Bird of Night by Susan Hill The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally Pasmore by David Storey

1971 Winner! In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing St. Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson Mrs Palfrey at the Clairmont by Elizabeth Taylor

1970 Winner! The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens John Brown's Body by A.L. Barker Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen Bruno's Dream by Iris Murdoch Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel by William Trevor The Conjunction by T. Wheeler

1969 Winner! The Something to Answer by P.H. Newby Figures in a Landscape by Barry England The Impossible Object by Nicholas Mosley The Nice and the Good by Iris Murdoch The Public Image by Muriel Spark From Scenes Like These by G.M. Williams