Winners of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 1969-2007
The Man Booker Prize (£ 50,000) is awarded for the best novel written in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. In 1993 Salman Rushdie was awarded Best of Twenty Five Years of the Booker Prize for his novel Midnight's Children.
2007 The Gathering by Anne Enright 2006 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 2005·The Sea by John Banville 2004 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2003 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre 2002 Life of Pi by Yann Martel 2001 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey 2000 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood 1999 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee 1998 Amsterdam: A Novel by Ian McEwan 1997 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 1996 Last Orders by Graham Swift 1995 The Ghost Road by Pat Barker 1994 How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman 1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle 1992 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (co-winner) 1992 Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (co-winner) 1991 The Famished Road by Ben Okri 1990 Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt 2008 Longlist 1989 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro The White Tiger Aravind Adiga 1988 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey Girl in a Blue Dress Gaynor Arnold 1987 Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry 1986 The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis From A to X John Berger 1985 The Bone People by Keri Hulme The Lost Dog Michelle de Kretser 1984 Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh 1983 Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee The Clothes on Their Backs 1982 Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally Linda Grant 1981 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie A Case of Exploding Mangoes 1980 Rites of Passage by William Golding Mohammed Hanif 1979 Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald The Northern Clemency 1978 The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch Philip Hensher 1977 Staying on by Paul Scott Netherland Joseph O’Neill 1976 Saville by David Storey The Enchantress of Florence 1975 Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Salman Rushdie 1974 The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer Child 44 Tom Rob Smith 1973 The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell A Fraction of the Whole 1972 G. by John Berger Steve Toltz 1971 In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul 1970 The Elected Member by Bernice. Rubens 1969 Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby
Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1918-2008
The Pulitzer Prize ($10,000) has been awarded by Columbia University since 1917. The awards are given on the recommendations of a board of jurors for Journalism, Letters, Music and Drama. The awards for Letters include Fiction, which is listed here, Nonfiction, Poetry, Biography or Autobiography, and History.
2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2006 March by Geraldine Brooks 2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones 2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham 1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth 1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser 1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford 1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx 1993 A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler 1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley 1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike 1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos 1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler 1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison 1987 A Summons To Memphis by Peter Taylor 1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry Mcmurtry 1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie 1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy 1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker 1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike 1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer 1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever 1978 Elbow Room: Stories by James Alan Mcpherson 1977 No award was given. 1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow 1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara 1974 No award was given. 1973 The Optimist's Daughter (large Print) by Eudora Welty 1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Earle Stegner 1971 No award was given. 1970 The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford by Jean Stafford 1969 House Made of Dawn by N Scott Momaday 1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron 1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud 1966 The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter by Katherine Anne Porter 1965 The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau 1964 No award was given.
1963 The Reivers: A Reminiscence by William Faulkner 1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor 1961 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury 1959 The Travels of Jaimie Mcpheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor 1958 A Death in the Family by James Agee 1957 No award was given. 1956 Andersonville by Mackinlay Kantor 1955 A Fable by William Faulkner 1954 No award was given. 1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 1952 The Caine Mutiny: A Novel of World War II by Herman Wouk 1951 The Town by Conrad Richter 1950 The Way West by A B Guthrie 1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens 1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener 1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren 1946 No award was given. 1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey 1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin 1943 Dragon's Teeth I by Upton Sinclair 1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow 1941 No award was given. 1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand 1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold Lenoir Davis 1935 Now in November by Josephine W. Johnson 1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller 1933 The Store by Thomas Stribling 1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes 1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge 1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin 1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder 1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield 1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis 1925 So Big by Edna Ferber 1924 The Able Mclaughlins by Margaret Wilson 1923 One of Ours by Willa Silbert Cather 1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington 1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 1920 No award was given. 1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington 1918 His Family by Ernest Poole
Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature The Nobel Prize for Literature (approx. $1.4 million) is awarded annually to the author who has produced "the most outstanding work in an ideal direction." Candidates are nominated by eminent writers, professors, critics, and previous prize winners. 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 – Doris Lessing (UK/Africa) – Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) - Harold Pinter (UK) - Elfriede Jelinek (Austria) - J.M. Coetzee (South Africa) - Imre Kertész (Hungary) - V.S. Naipaul (UK) - Gao Xingjian (China) - Günter Grass (Gemany) - José Saramago (Portugal) - Dario Fo (Italy) - Wislawa Szymborska (Poland) - Seamus Heaney (Ireland) - Kenzaburo Oe (Japan) - Toni Morrison (US) - Derek Walcott (St. Lucia)
1991 - Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) 1990 - Octavio Paz (Mexico) 1989 - Camilo José Cela (Spain) 1988 - Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt) 1987 - Joseph Brodsky (US) 1986 - Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) 1985 - Claude Simon (France) 1984 - Jaroslav Seifert (Czechoslovakia) 1983 - William Golding (UK) 1982 - Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia) 1981 - Elias Canetti (Bulgaria) 1980 - Czeslaw Milosz (US) 1979 - Odysseus Elytis (Greece) 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer (US) 1977 - Vicente Aleixandre (Spain) 1976 - Saul Bellow (US) 1975 - Eugenio Montale(Italy) 1974 - Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson (Both from Sweden) 1973 - Patrick White (Australia) 1972 - Heinrich Böll (Germany) 1971 - Pablo Neruda (Chile) 1970 - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (USSR) 1969 - Samuel Beckett 1968 - Yasunari Kawabata
1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 1959 1958 1957 1956 1955 1954 1953 1952 1951 1950 1949 1948 1947 1946 1945 1944
- Miguel Angel Asturias - Samuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs - Mikhail Sholokhov - Jean-Paul Sartre - Giorgos Seferis - John Steinbeck - Ivo Andric - Saint-John Perse - Salvatore Quasimodo - Boris Pasternak - Albert Camus - Juan Ramón Jiménez - Halldór Laxness - Ernest Hemingway - Winston Churchill - François Mauriac - Pär Lagerkvist - Bertrand Russell - William Faulkner - T.S. Eliot - André Gide - Hermann Hesse - Gabriela Mistral - Johannes V. Jensen
1943 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 1942 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 1941 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 1940 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää 1938 - Pearl Buck 1937 - Roger Martin du Gard 1936 - Eugene O'Neill 1935 - The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section 1934 - Luigi Pirandello 1933 - Ivan Bunin 1932 - John Galsworthy 1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt 1930 - Sinclair Lewis 1929 - Thomas Mann
1928 - Sigrid Undset 1927 - Henri Bergson 1926 - Grazia Deledda 1925 - George Bernard Shaw 1924 - Wladyslaw Reymont 1923 - William Butler Yeats 1922 - Jacinto Benavente 1921 - Anatole France 1920 - Knut Hamsun 1919 - Carl Spitteler 1918 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section 1917 - Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan 1916 - Verner von Heidenstam 1915 - Romain Rolland 1914 - The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section 1913 - Rabindranath Tagore 1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann 1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck 1910 - Paul Heyse 1909 - Selma Lagerlöf 1908 - Rudolf Eucken 1907 - Rudyard Kipling 1906 - Giosuè Carducci
1905 1904 1903 1902 1901
- Henryk Sienkiewicz - Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Theodor Mommsen - Sully Prudhomme