Yann Martel (the author of "Life of Pi")
Yann Martel won the Man Booker prize for his book "Life of Pi" in 2002.
Eleanor Catton won the 2013 Man Booker Prize for the novel The Luminaries.
Margaret Atwood won the 2000 Man Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin.
The winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize was Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending.
The cast of The Booker Prize Live - 2002 includes: Kirsty Wark as Herself - Presenter
Hilary Mantel
Peter Carey of Australia and J. M. Coetzee of South Africa are the only two writers who have won Booker Prize twice. Peter Carey won the Booker Prize in 1988 and 2001. J. M. Coetzee won the Booker Prize in 1983 and 1999.
V.S.Naipaul.
Ismail Kadare
Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker Prize in 2008 for The White Tiger.
Half a Life was written by V.S. Naipaul, but he didn't actually win the 2001 Man Booker Prize for Half a Life; Half a Life was longlisted for the prize. Naipaul had previously been shortlisted for the 1979 Man Booker Prize for his A Bend in the River, and won the 1971 Man Booker Prize for his In a Free State. Naipaul was a contender for the Man Booker International Prize in 2009.
The first woman to win the Booker Prize was Bernice Rubens in 1970. Rubens won the award for her novel, The Elected Member.