The Booker Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards. Winners not only get a bump in publicity, and most likely sales, they also receive a substantial cash payout. The first booker prize was awarded back in 1969 and the prize is just as prestigious now, in 2022.
Due to an administrative decision to shift the Booker Prize eligible publication dates, books published in 1970 were excluded from prize consideration for either the 1970 or the 1971 award. In 2010, in an attempt to rectify this, 22 novels published in 1970 were considered for what was deemed “The Lost Booker Prize.”
You may also notice there are joint winners in 2019, 1974 and 1992.Here are the Booker Prize winners since the creation of the award:
1969: Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby 1970: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubensy 1970: Troubles by J.G. Farrell (The Lost Booker Prize) 1971: In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul 1972: G. by John Berger 1973: The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell 1974: The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer (Joint Winner) 1974: Holiday by Stanley Middleton (Joint Winner) 1975: Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 1976: Saville by David Storey 1977: Staying On by Paul Scott 1978: The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch 1979: Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald 1980: Rites of Passage by William Golding 1981: Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 1982: Schindler’s Ark (Schindler’s List) by Thomas Keneally 1983: Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee 1984: Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner 1985: The Bone People by Keri Hulme 1986: The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis 1987: Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively 1988: Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey 1989: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 1990: Possession by A. S. Byatt 1991: The Famished Road by Ben Okri 1992: Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (Joint Winner) 1992: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Joint Winner) 1993: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle 1994: How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman 1995: The Ghost Road by Pat Barker 1996: Last Orders by Graham Swift 1997: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 1998: Amsterdam by Ian McEwan 1999: Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee 2000: The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 2001: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey 2002: Life of Pi by Yann Martel 2003: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre 2004: The Line of Beauty by Allan Hollinghurst 2005: The Sea by John Banville 2006: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 2007: The Gathering by Anne Enright 2008: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 2009: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 2010: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson 2011: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes 2012: Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel 2013: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton 2014: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan 2015: A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James 2016: The Sellout by Paul Beatty 2017: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 2018: Milkman by Anna Burns 2019: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Joint Winner) 2019: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Joint Winner) 2020: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart 2021: The Promise by Damon Galgut