The Sea was the Man Booker Prize winning publication of 2005. It was written by John Banville [b. December 1945]. The Irish novelist and journalist sometimes writes under the name of 'Benjamin Black'.
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded for the best full-length novel in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations (formerly British Commonwealth), Ireland, or Zimbabwe.
DBC Pierre won the Booker prize in 2003 for his novel "Vernon God Little."
_The Inheritance of Loss_ by Kiran Desai Here is a list that includes other years as well: http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/literaryawardsandprizes/tp/bookerPastWin.htm
Wislawa Szymborska won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996.
Orhan Pamuk won The Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006.
Yann Martel won the Man Booker prize for his book "Life of Pi" in 2002.
Yann Martel (the author of "Life of Pi")
Eleanor Catton won the 2013 Man Booker Prize for the novel The Luminaries.
Margaret Atwood won the Man Booker Prize for "The Blind Assassin" in 2000.
John Maxwell Coetzee
Nalson Mondela
The winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize was Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending.
Hilary Mantel
Kiran Desai won the 2006 Booker Prize for her novel 'The Inheritance of Loss'. She is an Indian author known for her powerful storytelling and insightful exploration of complex themes.
Ismail Kadare
V.S.Naipaul.
As of 2021, two people have won the Booker Prize more than once: Hilary Mantel and Peter Carey. Mantel won for her novels "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies," while Carey won for "Oscar and Lucinda" and "True History of the Kelly Gang."