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Booker Prize Winners

No.  

Year

Winner

Book

1

1969

P. H. Newby

Something to Answer For*

2

1970

Bernice Rubens

The Elected Member*

3

1971

V.S. Naipaul

In a Free State

4

1972

John Berger

G*

5

1973

J.G. Farrell

The Siege of Krishnapur

6

1974

Nadine Gordimer

The Conservationist

Stanley Middleton

Holiday*

7

1975

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Heat and Dust

8

1976

David Storey

Saville*

9

1977

Paul Scott

Staying On

10

1978

Iris Murdoch

The Sea, The Sea

11

1979

Penelope Fitzgerald

Offshore*

12

1980

William Golding

Rites of Passage*

13

1981

Salman Rushdie

Midnight’s Children

14

1982

Thomas Keneally

Schindler’s Ark

15

1983

J. M. Coetzee

Life and Times of Michael K.

16

1984

Anita Brookner

Hotel du Lac

17

1985

Keri Hulme

The Bone People

18

1986

Kingsley Amis

The Old Devils

19

1987

Penelope Lively

Moon Tiger

20

1988

Peter Carey

Oscar and Lucinda

21

1989

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

22

1990

A. S. Byatt

Possession

23

1991

Ben Okri

The Famished Road

24

1992

Michael Ondaatje

The English Patient

Barry Unsworth

Sacred Hunger*

25

1993

Roddy Doyle

Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha

26

1994

James Kelman

How Late It Was, How Late*

27

1995

Pat Barker

The Ghost Road*

28

1996

Graham Swift

Last Orders

29

1997

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

30

1998

Ian McEwan

Amsterdam

31

1999

J. M. Coetzee

Disgrace

32

2000

Margaret Atwood

The Blind Assassin

33

2001

Peter Carey

True History of the Kelly Gang

34

2002

Yann Martel

Life of Pi

35

2003

DBC Pierre

Vernon God Little

36

2004

Alan Hollinghurst

The Line of Beauty

37

2005

John Banville

The Sea

38

2006

Kiran Desai

The Inheritance of Loss

39

2007

Anne Enright

The Gathering*