1975

Winner Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Heat and Dust John Murray
Shortlisted author
Thomas Keneally
Gossip from the Forest Collins
Judges
Angus Wilson*
Peter Ackroyd Susan Hill Roy Fuller

1976
Winner David Storey
Saville Cape
Shortlisted authors
Who’s who in the Man Booker Prize André Brink
1969–2OO9 winners, shortlisted authors An Instant in the Wind W H Allen
and the panels of judges who chose them. R C Hutchinson
Rising Michael Joseph
Brian Moore
1969 Goshawk Squadron The Doctor’s Wife Cape
Winner P H Newby Elizabeth Taylor Julian Rathbone
Something to Answer For Faber & Faber Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont King Fisher Lives Michael Joseph
Shortlisted authors Chatto & Windus William Trevor
Barry England Judges The Children of Dynmouth Bodley Head
Figures in a Landscape Cape John Gross* Judges
Nicholas Moseley Saul Bellow John Fowles Walter Allen*
The Impossible Object Lady Antonia Fraser Philip Toynbee Mary Wilson Francis King
Hodder & Stoughton
Iris Murdoch 1972 1977
The Nice and the Good Winner John Berger Winner Paul Scott
Chatto & Windus G Weidenfeld & Nicolson Staying On Heinemann
Muriel Spark Shortlisted authors Shortlisted authors
The Public Image Macmillan Susan Hill Paul Bailey
G M Williams Bird of Night Hamish Hamilton Peter Smart’s Confessions Cape
From Scenes like These Thomas Keneally Caroline Blackwood
Secker & Warburg The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith Great Granny Webster Duckworth
Judges Angus & Robertson Jennifer Johnston
W L Webb* David Storey Shadows on our Skin Hamish Hamilton
Dame Rebecca West Stephen Spender Pasmore Longman Penelope Lively
Frank Kermode David Farrer Judges The Road to Lichfield Heinemann
Cyril Connolly* Barbara Pym
197O Dr George Steiner Elizabeth Bowen Quartet in Autumn Macmillan
Winner Bernice Rubens Judges
The Elected Member 1973 Philip Larkin*
Eyre & Spottiswoode Winner J G Farrell Beryl Bainbridge Brendan Gill
Shortlisted authors The Siege of Krishnapur David Hughes Robin Ray
A L Barker Weidenfeld & Nicolson
John Brown’s Body Hogarth Press Shortlisted authors 1978
Elizabeth Bowen Beryl Bainbridge Winner Iris Murdoch
Eva Trout Cape The Dressmaker Duckworth The Sea, the Sea Chatto & Windus
Iris Murdoch Elizabeth Mavor Shortlisted authors
Bruno’s Dream Chatto & Windus The Green Equinox Michael Joseph Kingsley Amis
William Trevor Iris Murdoch Jake’s Thing Hutchinson
Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel The Black Prince Chatto & Windus André Brink
Bodley Head Judges Rumours of Rain W H Allen
T W Wheeler Karl Miller* Penelope Fitzgerald
The Conjunction Angus & Robertson Edna O’Brien Mary McCarthy The Bookshop Duckworth
Judges Jane Gardam
David Holloway* 1974 God on the Rocks Hamish Hamilton
Dame Rebecca West Winners Nadine Gordimer Bernice Rubens
Lady Antonia Fraser The Conservationist Cape A Five-Year Sentence W H Allen
Ross Higgins Richard Hoggart Stanley Middleton Judges
Holiday Hutchinson Sir Alfred Ayer*
1971 Shortlisted authors Derwent May P H Newby
Winner V S Naipaul Kingsley Amis Angela Huth Clare Boylan
In a Free State Deutsch Ending Up Cape
Shortlisted authors Beryl Bainbridge 1979
Thomas Kilroy The Bottle Factory Outing Duckworth Winner Penelope Fitzgerald
The Big Chapel Faber & Faber C P Snow Offshore Collins
Doris Lessing In Their Wisdom Macmillan Shortlisted authors
Briefing for a Descent into Hell Cape Judges Thomas Keneally
Mordecai Richler Ion Trewin* Confederates Collins
St Urbain’s Horseman A S Byatt Elizabeth Jane Howard V S Naipaul
Weidenfeld & Nicolson A Bend in the River Deutsch
Derek Robinson Julian Rathbone
Joseph Michael Joseph
Fay Weldon
Praxis Hodder & Stoughton
Judges
Lord (Asa) Briggs*
Benny Green Michael Ratcliffe
Hilary Spurling Paul Theroux
198O
Winner William Golding
Rites of Passage Faber & Faber
Shortlisted authors
Anthony Burgess
Earthly Powers Hutchinson
Anita Desai
Clear Light of Day Heinemann
Alice Munro
The Beggar Maid Allen Lane
Julia O’Faolain
No Country for Young Men Allen Lane
Barry Unsworth
Pascali’s Island Michael Joseph
J L Carr
A Month in the Country Harvester
Judges
Professor David Daiches*
Ronald Blythe Margaret Forster
Claire Tomalin Brian Wenham
1981
Winner Salman Rushdie
Midnight’s Children Cape†
Shortlisted authors
Molly Keane
Good Behaviour Deutsch
Doris Lessing
The Sirian Experiments Cape
Ian McEwan
The Comfort of Strangers Cape
Ann Schlee
Rhine Journey Macmillan
Muriel Spark
Loitering with Intent Bodley Head
D M Thomas
The White Hotel Gollancz
Judges
Professor Malcolm Bradbury*
Brian Aldiss Joan Bakewell
Samuel Hynes Hermione Lee
1982
Winner Thomas Keneally
Schindler’s Ark Hodder & Stoughton
Shortlisted authors
John Arden
Silence among the Weapons Methuen
William Boyd
An Ice-Cream War Hamish Hamilton
Lawrence Durrell
Constance or Solitary Practices
Faber & Faber
Alice Thomas Ellis
The 27th Kingdom Duckworth
Timothy Mo
Sour Sweet Deutsch
Judges
Professor John Carey*
Paul Bailey Frank Delaney
Janet Morgan Lorna Sage
1983
Winner J M Coetzee
Life & Times of Michael K
Secker & Warburg
Shortlisted authors
Malcolm Bradbury 1987
Rates of Exchange Secker & Warburg Winner Penelope Lively
John Fuller Moon Tiger Deutsch
Flying to Nowhere Salamander Shortlisted authors
Anita Mason Chinua Achebe
The Illusionist Hamish Hamilton Anthills of the Savannah Heinemann
Salman Rushdie Peter Ackroyd
Shame Cape Chatterton Hamish Hamilton
Graham Swift Nina Bawden
Waterland Heinemann Circles of Deceit Macmillan
Judges Brian Moore
Fay Weldon* The Colour of Blood Cape
Angela Carter Terence Kilmartin Iris Murdoch
Peter Porter Libby Purves The Book and the Brotherhood
Chatto & Windus
1984 Judges
Winner Anita Brookner P D James*
Hotel du Lac Cape Lady Selina Hastings Allan Massie
Shortlisted authors Trevor McDonald John B Thompson
J G Ballard
Empire of the Sun Gollancz 1988
Julian Barnes Winner Peter Carey
Flaubert’s Parrot Cape Oscar and Lucinda Faber & Faber
Anita Desai Shortlisted authors
In Custody Heinemann Bruce Chatwin
Penelope Lively Utz Cape
According to Mark Heinemann Penelope Fitzgerald
David Lodge The Beginning of Spring Collins
Small World Secker & Warburg David Lodge
Judges Nice Work Secker & Warburg
Professor Richard Cobb* Salman Rushdie
Anthony Curtis Polly Devlin The Satanic Verses Viking
John Fuller Ted Rowlands Marina Warner
The Lost Father Chatto & Windus
1985 Judges
Winner Keri Hulme The Rt Hon Michael Foot*
The Bone People Hodder & Stoughton Sebastian Faulks Philip French
Shortlisted authors Blake Morrison Rose Tremain
Peter Carey
Illywhacker Faber & Faber 1989
J L Carr Winner Kazuo Ishiguro
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing Viking The Remains of the Day Faber & Faber
Doris Lessing Shortlisted authors
The Good Terrorist Cape Margaret Atwood
Jan Morris Cat’s Eye Bloomsbury
Last Letters from Hav Viking John Banville
Iris Murdoch The Book of Evidence Secker & Warburg
The Good Apprentice Chatto & Windus Sybille Bedford
Judges Jigsaw Hamish Hamilton
Norman St John-Stevas* James Kelman
Nina Bawden J W Lambert A Disaffection Secker & Warburg
Joanna Lumley Marina Warner Rose Tremain
Restoration Hamish Hamilton
1986 Judges
Winner Kingsley Amis David Lodge*
The Old Devils Hutchinson Maggie Gee Helen McNeil
Shortlisted authors David Profumo Edmund White
Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale Cape 199O
Paul Bailey Winner A S Byatt
Gabriel’s Lament Cape Possession Chatto & Windus
Robertson Davies Shortlisted authors
What’s Bred in the Bone Viking Beryl Bainbridge
Kazuo Ishiguro An Awfully Big Adventure Duckworth
An Artist of the Floating World Penelope Fitzgerald
Faber & Faber The Gate of Angels Collins
Timothy Mo John McGahern
An Insular Possession Chatto & Windus Amongst Women Faber & Faber
Judges Brian Moore
Anthony Thwaite* Lies of Silence Bloomsbury
Edna Healey Isabel Quigly Mordecai Richler
Gillian Reynolds Bernice Rubens Solomon Gursky Was Here
Chatto & Windus
Judges
Sir Denis Forman*
Susannah Clapp A Walton Litz George Mackay Brown Breakfast on Pluto Picador
Hilary Mantel Kate Saunders Beside the Ocean of Time John Murray Magnus Mills
Jill Paton Walsh The Restraint of Beasts Flamingo
1991 Knowledge of Angels Green Bay Judges
Winner Ben Okri Judges Douglas Hurd*
The Famished Road Cape Professor John Bayley* Professor Valentine Cunningham
Shortlisted authors Rabbi Julia Neuberger Dr Alastair Niven Penelope Fitzgerald Miriam Gross
Martin Amis Alan Taylor James Wood Nigella Lawson
Time’s Arrow Cape
Roddy Doyle 1995 1999
The Van Secker & Warburg Winner Pat Barker Winner J M Coetzee
Rohinton Mistry The Ghost Road Viking Disgrace Secker & Warburg
Such a Long Journey Faber & Faber Shortlisted authors Shortlisted authors
Timothy Mo Justin Cartwright Anita Desai
The Redundancy of Courage In Every Face I Meet Sceptre Fasting, Feasting Chatto & Windus
Chatto & Windus Salman Rushdie Michael Frayn
William Trevor The Moor’s Last Sigh Cape Headlong Faber & Faber
Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives) Barry Unsworth Andrew O’Hagan
Viking Morality Play Hamish Hamilton Our Fathers Faber & Faber
Judges Tim Winton Ahdaf Soueif
Jeremy Treglown* The Riders Picador The Map of Love Bloomsbury
Penelope Fitzgerald Jonathan Keates Judges Colm Tóibín
Nicholas Mosley Ann Schlee George Walden MP* The Blackwater Lightship Picador
Kate Kellaway Peter Kemp Judges
1992 Adam Mars-Jones Ruth Rendell Gerald Kaufman*
Winners Michael Ondaatje Shena Mackay John Sutherland
The English Patient Bloomsbury 1996 Boyd Tonkin Natasha Walter
Barry Unsworth Winner Graham Swift
Sacred Hunger Hamish Hamilton Last Orders Picador 2OOO
Shortlisted authors Shortlisted authors Winner Margaret Atwood
Christopher Hope Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin Bloomsbury
Serenity House Macmillan Alias Grace Bloomsbury Shortlisted authors
Patrick McCabe Beryl Bainbridge Trezza Azzopardi
The Butcher Boy Picador Every Man for Himself Duckworth The Hiding Place Picador
Ian McEwan Seamus Deane Michael Collins
Black Dogs Cape Reading in the Dark Cape The Keepers of Truth Phoenix House
Michèle Roberts Shena Mackay Kazuo Ishiguro
Daughters of the House Virago The Orchard on Fire Heinemann When we were Orphans Faber & Faber
Judges Rohinton Mistry Matthew Kneale
Victoria Glendinning* A Fine Balance Faber & Faber English Passengers Hamish Hamilton
John Coldstream Judges Brian O’Doherty
Valentine Cunningham Carmen Callil* The Deposition of Father McGreevy
Dr Harriet Harvey Wood Mark Lawson Jonathan Coe Ian Jack Arcadia
A L Kennedy A N Wilson Judges
1993 Simon Jenkins*
Winner Roddy Doyle 1997 Professor Roy Foster Mariella Frostrup
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Winner Arundhati Roy Caroline Gascoigne Rose Tremain
Secker & Warburg The God of Small Things Flamingo
Shortlisted authors Shortlisted authors 2OO1
Tibor Fischer Jim Crace Winner Peter Carey
Under the Frog Polygon Quarantine Viking True History of the Kelly Gang
Michael Ignatieff Mick Jackson Faber & Faber
Scar Tissue Chatto & Windus The Underground Man Picador Shortlisted authors
David Malouf Bernard MacLaverty Ian McEwan
Remembering Babylon Chatto & Grace Notes Cape Atonement Jonathan Cape
Windus Tim Parks Andrew Miller
Caryl Phillips Europa Secker & Warburg Oxygen Sceptre
Crossing the River Bloomsbury Madeleine St John David Mitchell
Carol Shields The Essence of the Thing Fourth Estate number9dream Sceptre
The Stone Diaries Fourth Estate Judges Rachel Seiffert
Judges Professor Gillian Beer* The Dark Room William Heinemann
Lord Gowrie* Rachel Billington Jason Cowley Ali Smith
Professor Gillian Beer Anne Chisholm Jan Dalley Professor Dan Jacobson Hotel World Hamish Hamilton
Nicholas Clee Olivier Todd Judges
1998 Kenneth Baker*
1994 Winner Ian McEwan Philip Hensher Michèle Roberts
Winner James Kelman Amsterdam Cape Kate Summerscale Professor Rory
How Late It Was, How Late Shortlisted authors Watson
Secker & Warburg Beryl Bainbridge
Shortlisted authors Master George Duckworth 2OO2
Romesh Gunesekera Julian Barnes Winner Yann Martel
Reef Granta Books England England Cape Life of Pi Canongate
Abdulrazak Gurnah Martin Booth Shortlisted authors
Paradise Hamish Hamilton The Industry of Souls Dewi Lewis Rohinton Mistry
Alan Hollinghurst Patrick McCabe Family Matters Faber & Faber
The Folding Star Chatto & Windus
Carol Shields Shortlisted authors 2OO9
Unless Fourth Estate Kate Grenville The Secret River Judges
William Trevor Canongate James Naughtie*
The Story of Lucy Gault Viking M J Hyland Carry Me Down Canongate Lucasta Miller
Sarah Waters Hisham Matar In the Country of Men John Mullan
Fingersmith Virago Viking Sue Perkins
Tim Winton Edward St Aubyn Mother’s Milk Virago Michael Prodger
Dirt Music Picador Sarah Waters The Night Watch Virago
Judges Judges 1993
Lisa Jardine* Hermione Lee* The Booker of Bookers
David Baddiel Russell Celyn Jones Simon Armitage Candia McWilliam † To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary,
Salley Vickers Erica Wagner Anthony Quinn Fiona Shaw three former chairmen of judges
– Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway
2OO3 2OO7 and W L Webb – were asked to choose
Winner DBC Pierre Winner Anne Enright the book which they believed to be
Vernon God Little Faber & Faber The Gathering Jonathan Cape the best of the previous winners. Their
Shortlisted authors Shortlisted authors ‘Booker of Bookers’ was Midnight’s
Monica Ali Nicola Barker Children by Salman Rushdie, which
Brick Lane Doubleday Darkmans Fourth Estate won the Booker Prize in 1981.
Margaret Atwood Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant
Oryx and Crake Bloomsbury Fundamentalist Hamish Hamilton 2OO8
Damon Galgut Lloyd Jones The Best of the Booker
The Good Doctor Atlantic Books Mister Pip John Murray † To mark the 4Oth anniversary, a
Zoë Heller Ian McEwan On Chesil Beach panel of judges was asked to select a
Notes on a Scandal Viking Penguin Jonathan Cape shortlist of the best books to have won
Clare Morrall Indra Sinha Animal’s People the prize
Astonishing Splashes of Colour Simon & Schuster in the previous four decades.
Tindal Street Press Judges For the first time in the prize’s history,
Judges Howard Davies* the ‘Best of the Booker’ was selected
John Carey* Wendy Cope Giles Foden Ruth Scurr by a public vote online at www.
A C Grayling Francine Stock Imogen Stubbs themanbookerprize.com.
Rebecca Stephens MBE D J Taylor Winner
2OO8 Salman Rushdie
2OO4 Winner Aravind Adiga Midnight’s Children Vintage
Winner Alan Hollinghurst The White Tiger Atlantic Shortlisted authors
The Line of Beauty Picador Shortlisted authors J G Farrell
Shortlisted authors Sebastian Barry The Siege of Krishnapur
Achmat Dangor The Secret Scripture Faber and Faber Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Bitter Fruit Atlantic Amitav Ghosh Nadine Gordimer
Sarah Hall Sea of Poppies John Murray The Conservationist Cape
The Electric Michelangelo Faber Linda Grant Peter Carey
David Mitchell The Clothes on Their Backs Virago Oscar and Lucinda Faber and Faber
Cloud Atlas Sceptre Philip Hensher Pat Barker
Colm Toibin The Northern Clemency Fourth Estate The Ghost Road Viking
The Master Picador Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole J M Coetzee
Gerard Woodward Hamish Hamilton Disgrace Secker & Warburg
I’ll go to Bed at Noon Chatto & Windus Judges Judges
Judges Michael Portillo* Victoria Glendinning*
Chris Smith* Alex Clark Mariella Frostrup
Tibor Fischer Robert Macfarlane Louise Doughty John Mullan
Rowan Pelling Fiammetta Rocco James Heneage
Hardeep Singh Kohli *Chair
2OO5
Winner John Banville
The Sea Picador
Shortlisted authors
Julian Barnes
Arthur and George Jonathan Cape
Sebastian Barry
A Long, Long Way Faber & Faber
Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go Faber & Faber
Ali Smith
The Accidental Hamish Hamilton
Zadie Smith
On Beauty Hamish Hamilton
Judges
John Sutherland*
Lindsay Duguid Rick Gekoski
Josephine Hart David Sexton

2OO6
Winner Kiran Desai
The Inheritance of Loss Penguin