PRIZES AND AWARDS: Booker Prize (1969–2000)

The Booker Prize was established in 1968 by Booker McConnell, a multinational company, for achievement in an English-language novel. Contestants are authors from the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth countries, the Republic of Ireland, and South Africa. Authors and titles are listed below by year.

1969

P. H. Newby, Something to Answer For

1970

Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member

1971

V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

1972

John Berger, G

1973

J. G. Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur; Stanley Middleton, Holiday

1974

Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist

1975

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust

1976

David Storey, Saville

1977

Paul Scott, Staying On

1978

Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea

1979

Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore

1980

William Golding, Rites of Passage

1981

Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

1982

Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s Ark

1983

J. M. Coetzee, The Life and Times of Michael K.

1984

Anita Brookner, Hotel Du Lac

1985

Keri Hulme, The Bone People

1986

Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils

1987

Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

1988

Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda

1989

Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

1990

A. S. Byatt, Possession

1991

Ben Okri, The Famished Road

1992

Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient; Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger

1993

Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

1994

James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late

1995

Pat Barker, The Ghost Road

1996

Graham Swift, Last Orders

1997

Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

1998

Ian McEwan, Amsterdam

1999

J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace

2000

Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

The Booker Prize. “Previous Winners,” www.bookerprize.co.uk/site/fiction/previous/previousfset.html

Booker McConnell Prize Pages. “Winning and Shortlisted Titles by Year,” www.utc.edu/~engldept/booker/booker.htm