The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, first awarded in 1969, promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year. Any full-length novel, an original work in English, written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland and published in the United Kingdom for the first time in the year of the prize is eligible. (www.themanbookerprize.com)
2014: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
2013: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
2012: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
2011: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
2010: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
2009: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2008: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
2007: The Gathering by Anne Enright
2006: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2005: The Sea by John Banville
2004: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2003: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
2002: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2001: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
2000: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
1999: Disgrace by J M Coetzee
1998: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
1997: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
1996: Last Orders by Graham Swift
1995: The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
1994: How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
1993: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
1992: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
1991: The Famished Road by Ben Okri
1990: Possession by A S Byatt
1989: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
1988: Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
1987: Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
1986: The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
1985: The Bone People by Keri Hulme
1984: Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
1983: Life & Times of Michael K by J M Coetzee
1982: Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
1981: Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
1980: Rites of Passage by William Golding
1979: Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
1978: The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
1977: Staying On by Paul Scott
1976: Saville by David Storey
1975: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1974: The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
1973: The Siege of Krishnapur by J G Farrell
1972: G by John Berger
1971: In a Free State by V S Naipaul
1970: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
1969: Something to Answer For by P H Newby
