| Year
|
Winner
|
Country
|
Title
|
Ref
|
|---|
| 1969
|
P. H. Newby
|
United Kingdom
|
Something to Answer For
|
|
| 1970
|
Bernice Rubens
|
United Kingdom
|
The Elected Member
|
|
| 1971
|
V. S. Naipaul
|
Trinidad & Tobago / UK
|
In a Free State
|
|
| 1972
|
John Berger
|
United Kingdom
|
G.
|
|
| 1973
|
J. G. Farrell
|
United Kingdom
|
The Siege of Krishnapur
|
|
| 1974
|
Nadine Gordimer / Stanley Middleton
|
South Africa / UK
|
The Conservationist / Holiday
|
|
| 1975
|
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
|
United Kingdom
|
Heat and Dust
|
|
| 1976
|
David Storey
|
United Kingdom
|
Saville
|
|
| 1977
|
Paul Scott
|
United Kingdom
|
Staying On
|
|
| 1978
|
Iris Murdoch
|
United Kingdom
|
The Sea, the Sea
|
|
| 1979
|
Penelope Fitzgerald
|
United Kingdom
|
Offshore
|
|
| 1980
|
William Golding
|
United Kingdom
|
Rites of Passage
|
|
| 1981
|
Salman Rushdie
|
United Kingdom / India
|
Midnight's Children
|
|
| 1982
|
Thomas Keneally
|
Australia
|
Schindler's Ark
|
|
| 1983
|
J. M. Coetzee
|
South Africa / Australia
|
Life & Times of Michael K
|
|
| 1984
|
Anita Brookner
|
United Kingdom
|
Hotel du Lac
|
|
| 1985
|
Keri Hulme
|
New Zealand
|
The Bone People
|
|
| 1986
|
Kingsley Amis
|
United Kingdom
|
The Old Devils
|
|
| 1987
|
Penelope Lively
|
United Kingdom
|
Moon Tiger
|
|
| 1988
|
Peter Carey
|
Australia
|
Oscar and Lucinda
|
|
| 1989
|
Kazuo Ishiguro
|
United Kingdom / Japan
|
The Remains of the Day
|
|
| 1990
|
A. S. Byatt
|
United Kingdom
|
Possession
|
|
| 1991
|
Ben Okri
|
Nigeria
|
The Famished Road
|
|
| 1992
|
Michael Ondaatje / Barry Unsworth
|
Sri Lanka / Canada & United Kingdom
|
The English Patient / Sacred Hunger
|
|
| 1993
|
Roddy Doyle
|
Ireland
|
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
|
|
| 1994
|
James Kelman
|
United Kingdom
|
How Late It Was, How Late
|
|
| 1995
|
Pat Barker
|
United Kingdom
|
The Ghost Road
|
|
| 1996
|
Graham Swift
|
United Kingdom
|
Last Orders
|
|
| 1997
|
Arundhati Roy
|
India
|
The God of Small Things
|
|
| 1998
|
Ian McEwan
|
United Kingdom
|
Amsterdam
|
|
| 1999
|
J. M. Coetzee
|
South Africa / Australia
|
Disgrace
|
|
| 2000
|
Margaret Atwood
|
Canada
|
The Blind Assassin
|
|
| 2001
|
Peter Carey
|
Australia
|
True History of the Kelly Gang
|
|
| 2002
|
Yann Martel
|
Canada
|
Life of Pi
|
|
| 2003
|
D. B. C. Pierre
|
Australia / Mexico
|
Vernon God Little
|
|
| 2004
|
Alan Hollinghurst
|
United Kingdom
|
The Line of Beauty
|
|
| 2005
|
John Banville
|
Ireland
|
The Sea
|
|
| 2006
|
Kiran Desai
|
India
|
The Inheritance of Loss
|
|
| 2007
|
Anne Enright
|
Ireland
|
The Gathering
|
|
| 2008
|
Aravind Adiga
|
India
|
The White Tiger
|
|
| 2009
|
Hilary Mantel
|
United Kingdom
|
Wolf Hall
|
|
| 2010
|
Howard Jacobson
|
United Kingdom
|
The Finkler Question
|
|
| 2011
|
Julian Barnes
|
United Kingdom
|
The Sense of an Ending
|
|
| 2012
|
Hilary Mantel
|
United Kingdom
|
Bring Up the Bodies
|
|
| 2013
|
Eleanor Catton
|
New Zealand
|
The Luminaries
|
|
| 2014
|
Richard Flanagan
|
Australia
|
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
|
|
| 2015
|
Marlon James
|
Jamaica
|
A Brief History of Seven Killings
|
|
| 2016
|
Paul Beatty
|
United States
|
The Sellout
|
|
| 2017
|
George Saunders
|
United States
|
Lincoln in the Bardo
|
|
| 2018
|
Anna Burns
|
United Kingdom
|
Milkman
|
|
| 2019
|
Bernardine Evaristo / Margaret Atwood
|
UK & Canada
|
Girl, Woman, Other / The Testaments
|
|
| 2020
|
Douglas Stuart
|
United Kingdom / United States
|
Shuggie Bain
|
|
| 2021
|
Damon Galgut
|
South Africa
|
The Promise
|
|
| 2022
|
Shehan Karunatilaka
|
Sri Lanka
|
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida[3] |
| 2023
|
Paul Lynch
|
Ireland
|
Prophet Song[4] |
| 2024
|
Samantha Harvey
|
United Kingdom
|
Orbital[5] |
| 2025
|
|
|
|
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