The Man Booker Prizes

   The Man Booker Prize is awarded annually in Britain to the work of fiction judged the year's best. Many of the recent winners have been controversial, either due to their content, their style, or their author. A majority of the winners in the last decade comes from Commonwealth nations, rather than from England proper. Here's a complete list, should you want to continue your exploration of Modern Britain through fiction.
 

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, The 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 and 
Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
1991 Ben Okri, The Famished Road
1990 A. S. Byatt, Possession
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 and Times of Michael K.
1982 Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark
1981 Salman Rusdie, Midnight's Children
also chosen the "Booker of Bookers" in 1994
1980 William Golding, Rites of Passage
1979 Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
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 and 
Stanley Middleton, Holiday
1973 J. G. Farrell, Siege of Krishnapur
1972 John Berger, G.
1971 V. S. Naipul, In A Free State
1970 Bernice Rubens, Elected Member
1969 P. H. Newby, Something to Answer For

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