BOOKER PRIZE WINNERS

1.      1981 Salman Rushdie Midnight's Children Magical realism United Kingdom India 1982

2.      1982 Thomas Keneally Schindler's Ark Biographical novel Australia 1983

3.      1983 J. M. Coetzee Life & Times of Michael K Novel South Africa

4.      1984 Anita Brookner Hotel du Lac Novel United Kingdom

5.      1985 Keri Hulme The Bone People Mystery novel New Zealand

6.      1986 Kingsley Amis The Old Devils Comic novel United Kingdom

7.      1987 Penelope Lively Moon Tiger Novel United Kingdom

8.      1988 Peter Carey Oscar and Lucinda Novel Australia

9.      1989 Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day Historical novel United Kingdom/Japan

10.  1990 A. S. Byatt Possession Novel United Kingdom

11.  1991 Ben Okri The Famished Road Magic realism Nigeria

12.  1992 Michael Ondaatje The English Patient Historiography metafiction Canada
Sri Lanka Barry Unsworth Sacred Hunger Historical novel United Kingdom

13.  1993 Roddy Doyle Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Novel Ireland

14.  1994 James Kelman How Late It Was, How Late Stream of consciousness United Kingdom

15.  1995 Pat Barker The Ghost Road War novel United Kingdom

16.  1996 Graham Swift Last Orders Novel United Kingdom

17.  1997 Arundhati Roy The God of Small Things Novel India

18.  1998 Ian McEwan Amsterdam Novel United Kingdom

19.  1999 J. M. Coetzee Disgrace Novel South Africa

20.  2000 Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin Novel Canada

21.  2001 Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang Historical novel Australia

22.  2002 Yann Martel Life of Pi Fantasy novel Canada

23.  2003 DBC Pierre Vernon God Little Novel Australia

24.  2004 Alan Hollinghurst The Line of Beauty Historical novel United Kingdom

25.  2005 John Banville The Sea Novel Ireland

26.  2006 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss Novel India

27.  2007 Anne Enright The Gathering Novel Ireland

28.  2008 Arvind Adiga The White Tiger Novel India

29.  2009 Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall Historical novel United Kingdom

30.  2010 Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question Novel United Kingdom