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Booker Prize for Fiction

2003
Vernon God Little
Vernon God Little
DBC Pierre

The Booker Prize for Fiction is one of the world's most famous and prestigious literary prizes. It is awarded to what the judges deem is the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the U.K., the British Commonwealth, Eire, Pakistan or South Africa. The prize is administered by the National Book League in the U.K. The winner receives £21,000.



Current Winners Past Winners

Life of Pi2002
Life of Pi
Yann Martel



The Blind Assassin2000
The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwood

True History of the Kelly Gang2001
True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey



Disgrace1999
Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee

1998 - Amsterdam, Ian McEwan
1997 - The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
1996 - Last Orders Graham Swift
1995 - The Ghost Road Pat Barker
1994 - How Late It Was, How Late James Kelman
1993 - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Roddy Doyle
1992 - The English Patient Michael Ondaatje/Sacred Hunger Barry Unsworth
1991 - The Famished Road Ben Okri
1990 - Possession A. S. Byatt
1989 - The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro
1988 - Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey
1987 - Moon Tiger Penelope Lively
1986 - The Old Devils Kingsley Amis
1985 - The Bone People Keri Hulme
1984 - Hotel du Lac Anita Brookner
1983 - Life and Times of Michael K J. M. Coetzee
1982 - Schindler's Ark Thomas Keneally
1981 - Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
1980 - Rites of Passage William Golding
1979 - Offshore Penelope Fitzgerald
1978 - The Sea, The Sea Iris Murdoch
1977 - Staying On Paul Scott
1976 - Saville David Storey
1975 - Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1974 - The Conservationalist Nadine Gordimer
1973 - The Siege of Krishnapur J. G. Farrell
1972 - G. John Berger
1971 - In a Free State V. S. Naipaul
1970 - The Elected Member Bernice Rubens
1969 - Something to Answer For P. H. Newby

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