The Booker Prize Winners List

The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.

The winner of the Booker Prize is generally assured international renown and success; therefore, the prize is of great significance for the book trade. From its inception, only novels written by Commonwealth, Irish, and South African (and later Zimbabwean) citizens were eligible to receive the prize; in 2014 it was widened to any English-language novel—a change that proved controversial.

The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. Winning titles are listed in yellow, first in their year.

There have been three special awards celebrating the Booker’s history. In 1993, the “Booker of Bookers” prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight’s Children (the 1981 winner) as the best novel to win the award in its first 25 years. Midnight’s Children also won a public vote in 2008, on the prize’s fortieth anniversary, “The Best of the Booker”. In 2018 a special “Golden Booker” was awarded celebrating 50 years of the award – this award was won by Michael Ondaatje for The English Patient.