The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019). The Booker Prize is a literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
The Booker Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards. It was established in 1969 and is awarded annually to the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom.
The winner receives £50,000, as well as international publicity that usually leads to a significant sales boost.
A five-person panel of authors, publishers and journalists, as well as politicians, actors, artists and musicians appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation each year to choose the winning book. Gaby Wood has been the chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation since 2015.
Booker Prize Winners List
| Year | Author | Title |
| 2026 | ||
| 2025 | David Szalay | Flesh |
| 2024 | Samantha Harvey | Orbital |
| 2023 | Paul Lynch | Prophet Song |
| 2022 | Shehan Karunatilaka | The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida |
| 2021 | Damon Galgut | The Promise |
| 2020 | Douglas Stuart | Shuggie Bain |
| 2019 | Margaret Atwood | The Testaments |
| 2018 | Anna Burns | Milkman |
| 2017 | George Saunders | Lincoln in the Bardo |
| 2016 | Paul Beatty | The Sellout |
| 2015 | Marlon James | A Brief History of Seven Killings |
| 2014 | Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North |
| 2013 | Eleanor Catton | The Luminaries |
| 2012 | Hilary Mantel | Bring Up the Bodies |
| 2011 | Julian Barnes | The Sense of an Ending |
| 2010 | Howard Jacobson | The Finkler Question |
| 2009 | Hilary Mantel | Wolf Hall |
| 2008 | Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger |
| 2007 | Anne Enright | The Gathering |
| 2006 | Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss |
| 2005 | John Banville | The Sea |
| 2004 | Alan Hollinghurst | The Line of Beauty |
| 2003 | DBC Pierre | Vernon God Little |
| 2002 | Yann Martel | Life of Pi |
| 2001 | Peter Carey | True History of the Kelly Gang |
| 2000 | Margaret Atwood | The Blind Assassin |
| 1999 | J. M. Coetzee | Disgrace |
| 1998 | Ian McEwan | Amsterdam |
| 1997 | Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things |
| 1996 | Graham Swift | Last Orders |
| 1995 | Pat Barker | The Ghost Road |
| 1994 | James Kelman | How Late It Was, How Late |
| 1993 | Roddy Doyle | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
| 1992 | Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient |
| 1991 | Ben Okri | The Famished Road |
| 1990 | A. S. Byatt | Possession: A Romance |
| 1989 | Kazuo Ishiguro | The Remains of the Day |
| 1988 | Peter Carey | Oscar and Lucinda |
| 1987 | Penelope Lively | Moon Tiger |
| 1986 | Kingsley Amis | The Old Devils |
| 1985 | Keri Hulme | The Bone People |
| 1984 | Anita Brookner | Hotel du Lac |
| 1983 | J. M. Coetzee | Life & Times of Michael K |
| 1982 | Thomas Keneally | Schindler’s Ark (later retitled Schindler’s List) |
| 1981 | Salman Rushdie | Midnight’s Children |
| 1980 | William Golding | Rites of Passage |
| 1978 | Iris Murdoch | The Sea, The Sea |
| 1977 | Paul Scott | Staying On |
| 1976 | David Storey | Saville |
| 1975 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | Heat and Dust |
| 1974 | Nadine Gordimer | The Conservationist |
| 1973 | J. G. Farrell | The Siege of Krishnapur |
| 1972 | John Berger | G(Novel) |
| 1971 | V. S. Naipaul | In a Free State |
| 1970 | Bernice Rubens | The Elected Member |
| 1969 | P. H. Newby | Something to Answer For |
