2024 winner
The winner of the 2024 Booker Prize was Orbital by Samantha Harvey.
2023 winner
The winner of the 2023 Booker Prize was Prophet Song by Paul Lynch.
2022 winner
The winner of the 2022 Booker Prize was The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka.
2021 winner
The winner of the 2021 Booker Prize was The Promise by Damon Galgut.
2020 winner
The 2020 winner was Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart.
The Golden Booker
In 2018, to celebrate 50 years of the award a special "Golden Booker" was awarded to The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje.
The Best of the Booker
In 2008, on the 40th anniversary of the award, the "Best of the Booker" was announced as Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie.
The Booker Prize.
The Booker Prize is one of the richest literary prizes in the English-speaking world.
Each year, a prize of £50,000 is awarded to the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.
The International Booker Prize was started in 2005 to reward books that were translated into English and published in the UK or Ireland.
Name and sponsorship.
The Booker Prize was created in 1969. It was named after Booker McConnell Ltd (now just known as Booker Group) its original sponsor.
From 2002 to 2019, it was known as the "Man Booker Prize" after its new sponsor, Man Group. In 2019, the current sponsor, Crankstart was announced.
The Lost Booker
In the first two years of the competition, the prize was open to books published the year before the prize was awarded. In 1971, this was changed to the same year as the prize ceremony. This effectively meant that books published in 1970 were not considered for an award.
In 2010 a special "Lost Booker" competition was announced for books published in 1970. From a long list of 22 novels, the judges chose Troubles by J. G. Farrell as the winner.
