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Man Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize was founded in 1969 by Booker McConnell, a multinational conglomerate company and is awarded to the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan, or South Africa.
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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 --BookMuse features Atonement
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 and Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
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 and 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 Prawar Jhabvala
1974: The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer and Holiday by Stanley Middleton
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


Please click on these prizes to go to their award lists:
    Hans Christian Andersen Medal
    Mildred L. Batchelder Award
    Booker Prize
    Caldecott Medal
    Carnegie Medal
    Edgar Allan Poe Award
    Margaret A. Edwards Award
    Giller Prize
    Kate Greenaway Medal
    Governor General's Literary Awards
    Coretta Scott King Award
    National Book Award
    National Book Critics Circle Awards
    Newbery Medal
    Nobel Prize
    PEN/Faulkner Award
    Pulitzer Prize
    Sibert Award
    Smarties Prize
    Whitbread Award
    Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal

   



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