The Booker Prize
 
Award Winners
The Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each
year for the best original novel written in the English language
and published in the United Kingdom.
 
2022
 
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
by Shehan Karunatilaka
 
A war photographer named Maali Almeida has woken up dead. His body has been dismembered and he has no idea what happened. The suspect list is long and time is running out for Maali, even in death. Can he use the seven moons to contact those he loves most and lead them to the photos that will forever change Sri Lanka?
2021
 
The Promise
by Damon Galgut

"Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over three decades, the dwindling family reflects the atmosphere of its country - an atmosphere ofresentment, renewal, and - ultimately - hope. The Promise is an epic drama that unfurls against the unrelenting march of national history, sure to please current fans and attract many new ones"
2020
 
Shuggie Bain 
by Douglas Stuart

A young boy growing up in a rundown 1980s Glasgow public housing facility pursues some semblance of a normal life as his older siblings move on and his mother increasingly succumbs to alcoholism. 
                        2019 (Two Winners)

The Testaments
by Margaret Atwood

A long-anticipated sequel to the best-selling The Handmaid’s Tale is set 15 years after Offred stepped into an unknown fate and interweaves the experiences of three female narrators from Gilead.
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo

Girl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives. These unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of their identities, from age to race to sexuality to class. 
2018
 
Milkman
by Anna Burns

In Northern Ireland during the Troubles of the 1970s, an unnamed narrator finds herself targeted by a high-ranking dissident known as Milkman.
2017
 
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders

Traces a night of solitary mourning and reflection as experienced by the sixteenth president after the death of his eleven-year-old son at the dawn of the Civil War.
2016
 
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty

A biting satire by the author of The White Boy Shuffle traces a young man's isolated upbringing and a racially charged trial that sends him to the Supreme Court.
2015
 
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James

A tale inspired by the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley spans decades and continents to explore the experiences of journalists, drug dealers, killers, and ghosts against a backdrop of period social and political turmoil. 
 
2014
 
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan

Haunted by the death of his wife while attending brutally sick and injured soldiers at a World War II Japanese POW camp, surgeon Dorrigo Evans receives a letter that irrevocably shapes the subsequent decades of his life in Australia.
2013
 
The Luminaries
by Eleanor Catton

Prostitute Anna Wetherell is arrested on the same day that three men with various connections to her disappear from a coastal New Zealand town during the 1866 gold rush.
2014
 
Bring up the bodies
by Hilary Mantel

A sequel to the Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall depicts the downfall of Anne Boleyn at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell.
2011
 
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes

Follows a middle-aged man as he reflects on a past he thought was behind him, until he is presented with a legacy that forces him to reconsider different decisions, and to revise his place in the world
 
2010
 
The Finkler Question
by Howard Jacobson

Julian Treslove, a radio producer, and Samuel Finkler, a Jewish philosopher, have been friends since childhood; As they enter middle age, they reminisce over their struggles with self-identity, anti-Semitism, women, love, and the past.
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