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Man Booker Prize
 
Best of the Booker - (2008)

The Best of the Booker winner, Salman Rushdie, was announced on 10th July at the London Literature Festival.
The six shortlisted books, chosen from the list of 41 Booker Prize and Man Booker Prize winners, were:

        Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981, Cape; paperback Vintage) WINNER

        Pat Barker's The Ghost Road (1995, Viking; paperback Penguin)

        Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda (1988, Faber & Faber; paperback Faber)

        JM Coetzee's Disgrace (1999, Secker & Warburg; paperback Vintage)

        JG Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur (1973, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, paperback Phoenix)

        Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist (1974, Cape; paperback Bloomsbury)

Best of the Booker - Press Release 2008




Man Booker Prize    Man Booker Prize 2008 - Winner Announced

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Booker Prize for 2008

Title Author
 
The White Tiger Winner Adiga, Aravind
 
The Secret Scripture  Barry, Sebastian
 
Sea of Poppies  Ghosh, Amitav
 
The Clothes on their Backs  Grant, Linda
 
The Northern Clemency  Hensher, Philip
 
A Fraction of the Whole  Toltz, Steve
 



 

Booker Prize for 2007

Title Author
 
The Gathering Winner Enright, Anne
 
Animal's People  Sinha, Indra
 
On Chesil Beach  McEwan, Ian
 
Mister Pip  Jones, Lloyd
 
The Reluctant Fundamentalist  Hamid, Mohsin
 
Darkmans  Barker, Nicola
 



 

Booker Prize for 2006

Title Author
 
The Inheritance of Loss Winner Desai, Kiran
 
The Night Watch  Waters, Sarah
 
Mothers Milk  Aubyn, Edward St
 
In The Country of Men  Matar, Hisham
 
Carry Me Down  Hyland, M J
 
The Secret River  Grenville, Kate
 



 

Booker Prize for 2005

Title Author
 
The Sea Winner Banville, John
 
The Accidental  Smith, Ali
 
On Beauty  Smith, Zadie
 
Never Let Me Go  Ishiguro, Kazuo
 
A Long, Long Way  Barry, Sebastian
 
Arthur and George  Barnes, Julian
 



 

Booker Prize for 2004

Title Author
 
The Line of Beauty Winner Hollinghurst, Alan
 
I'll Go to Bed at Noon  Woodward, Gerard
 
The Master  Toibin, Colm
 
Cloud Atlas  Mitchell, David
 
Electric Michelangelo, The  Hall, Sarah
 
Bitter Fruit  Dangor, Achmat
 



 

Booker Prize for 2003

Title Author
 
Vernon God Little Winner Pierre, DBC
 
Brick Lane  Ali, Monica
 
Oryx and Crake  Atwood, Margaret
 
Astonishing Splashes of Colour  Morrall, Clare
 
Notes on a Scandal  Heller, Zoe
 
The Good Doctor  Galgut, Damon
 



 

Booker Prize for 2002

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



 

Booker Prize for 2001

Title Author
 
True History of the Kelly Gang Winner Carey, Peter
 
Atonement  McEwan, Ian
 
Oxygen  Miller, Andrew
 
number9dream  Mitchell, David
 
The Dark Room  Seiffert, Rachel
 
Hotel World  Smith, Ali
 



 

Booker Prize for 2000

Title Author
 
The Blind Assassin Winner Atwood, Margaret
 
The Hiding Place  Azzopardi, Trezza
 
The Keepers of Truth  Collins, Michael
 
When we were Orphans  Ishiguro, Kazuo
 
English Passengers  Kneale, Matthew
 
The Deposition of Father McGreevy  O'Doherty, Brian
 



 

Booker Prize for 1999

Title Author
 
Disgrace Winner Coetzee, J M
 
The Map of Love  Soueif, Adhaf
 
Fasting, Feasting  Desai, Anita
 
Headlong  Frayn, Michael
 
Our Fathers  O'Hagan, Andrew
 
The Blackwater Lightship  Toibin, Colm
 



 

Booker Prize for 1998

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



 

Booker Prize for 1997

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



 

Booker Prize for 1996

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



 

Booker Prize for 1995

Title Author
 
The Ghost Road Winner Barker, Pat
 
In Every Face I Met  Cartwright, Justin
 
The Moor's Last Sigh  Rushdie, Salman
 
Morality Play  Unsworth, Barry
 
The Riders  Winton, Tim
 



 

Booker Prize for 1994

Title Author
 
How Late It Was, How Late Winner Kelman, James
 
Reef  Gunesekera, Romesh
 
Paradise  Gurnah, Abdulrazak
 
The Folding Star  Hollinghurst, Alan
 
Beside the Ocean of Time  Brown, George Mackay
 
Knowledge of Angels  Walsh, Jill Paton
 



 

Booker Prize for 1993

Title Author
 
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Winner Doyle, Roddy
 
Under the Frog  Fischer, Tibor
 
Scar Tissue  Ignatieff, Michael
 
Remembering Babylon  Malouf, David
 
Crossing the River  Phillips, Caryl
 
The Stone Diaries  Shields, Carol
 



 

Booker Prize for 1992

Title Author
 
The English Patient Winner Ondaatje, Michael
 
Sacred Hunger Winner Unsworth, Barry
 
Serenity House  Hope, Christopher
 
The Butcher Boy  McCabe, Patrick
 
Black Dogs  McEwan, Ian
 
Daughters of the House  Roberts, Michele
 



 

Booker Prize for 1991

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



 

Booker Prize for 1990

Title Author
 
Possession Winner Byatt, A S
 
An Awfully Big Adventure  Bainbridge, Beryl
 
The Gate of Angels  Fitzgerald, Penelope