Women and the Booker Prize – The Winners
Bernice Rubens Nadine Gordimer Ruth Prawer Iris Murdoch The Elected Member The Conservationist Jhabvala The Sea, The Sea Heat & Dust
Also shortlisted Also shortlisted Also shortlisted Also shortlisted A. L. Barker Stanley Middleton Thomas Keneally Kingsley Amis John Brown’s Body Holiday (joint winner) Gossip from the Forest Jake’s Thing Elizabeth Bowen kingsley Amis André Brink Eva Trout Ending Up Rumours of Rain Iris Murdoch Beryl Bainbridge Penelope Fitzgerald Bruno’s Dream The Bottle Factory Outing The Bookshop William Trevor c. P. Snow Jane Gardam Mrs Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel In Their Wisdom God on the Rocks T. W. Wheeler Bernice Rubens The Conjunction A Five-Year Sentence
The Judges were The Judges were The Judges were The Judges were David Holloway (Chair), Lady Antonia Fraser, Ion Trewin (Chair), A. S. Byatt and Angus Wilson (Chair), Peter Ackroyd, Sir Alfred Ayer (Chair), Clare Boylan, Ross Higgins, Richard Hoggart and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Roy Fuller and Susan Hill. Angela Huth, Derwent May and Dame Rebecca West. P. H. Newby. 1970 1974 1975 1978 Women and the Booker Prize – The Winners
Penelope Anita Brookner Keri Hulme Penelope Lively Fitzgerald Hotel du Lac The Bone People Moon Tiger Offshore
Also shortlisted Also shortlisted Also shortlisted Also shortlisted Thomas Keneally J. G. Ballard Peter Carey Chinua Achebe Confederates Empire of the Sun Illywhacker Anthills of the Savannah v. S. Naipaul Julian Barnes J. L. Carr Peter Ackroyd A Bend in the River Flaubert’s Parrot The Battle of Pollocks Crossing Chatterton Julian Rathbone Anita Desai doris Lessing nina Bawden Joseph In Custody The Good Terrorist Circles of Deceit Fay Weldon Penelope Lively Jan Morris Brian Moore Praxis According to Mark Last Letters from Hav The Colour of Blood dAvid Lodge iris Murdoch iris Murdoch Small World The Good Apprentice The Book and the Brotherhood
The Judges were The Judges were The Judges were The Judges were Lord (Asa) Briggs (Chair), Benny Green, Ion Trewin (Chair), A. S. Byatt and Norman St John-Stevas (Chair), P. D. James (Chair), Lady Selina Hastings, Michael Ratcliffe, Hilary Spurling and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Nina Bawden, J. W. Lambert, Allan Massie, Trevor McDonald and Paul Theroux. Joanna Lumley and Marina Warner. John B. Thompson. 1979 1984 1985 1987 Women and the Booker Prize – The Winners
A. S. Byatt Pat Barker Arundhati Roy Margaret Atwood Possession The Ghost Road The God of Small The Blind Assassin Things
Also shortlisted Also shortlisted Also shortlisted Also shortlisted Beryl Bainbridge Justin Cartwright Jim Crace Trezza Azzopardi An Awfully Big Adventure In Every Face I Meet Quarantine The Hiding Place Penelope Fitzgerald sALMAn Rushdie Mick Jackson Michael Collins The Gate of Angels The Moor’s Last Sigh The Underground Man The Keepers of Truth John McGahern Barry Unsworth Bernard MacLaverty kAzuo Ishiguro Amongst Women Morality Play Grace Notes When We Were Orphans Brian Moore tim Winton tim Parks Matthew Kneale Lies of Silence The Riders Europa English Passengers Mordecai Richler Madeleine St John Brian O’Doherty Solomon Gursky Was Here The Essence of the Thing The Deposition of Father McGreevy
The Judges were The Judges were The Judges were The Judges were Sir Denis Forman (Chair), Susannah Clapp, George Walden MP (Chair), Kate Kellaway, Professor Gillian Beer (Chair), Simon Jenkins (Chair), Professor Roy Foster, A. Walton Litz, Hilary Mantel and Peter Kemp, Adam Mars-Jones and Rachel Billington, Jason Cowley, Mariella Frostrup, Caroline Gascoigne and Kate Saunders. Ruth Rendell. Jan Dalley and Professor Dan Jacobson. Dr Rose Tremain. 1990 1995 1997 2000 Women and the Booker Prize – The Winners
Kiran Desai Anne Enright Hilary Mantel Alice Munro The Inheritance of Loss The Gathering Wolf Hall For her life’s work International Prize
Also shortlisted Also shortlisted Also shortlisted Also shortlisted Kate Grenville Nicola Barker A. S. Byatt Peter Carey, Evan S. Connell, The Secret River Darkmans The Children’s Book Mahasweta Devi, E. L. Doctorow, M. J. Hyland Mohsin Hamid J. M. Coetzee James Kelman, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carry Me Down The Reluctant Fundamentalist Summertime Arno T. Lustig, V. S. Naipaul, hisham Matar Lloyd Jones Adam Foulds Joyc Carol Oates, Antonio Tabucchi, In the Country of Men Mister Pip The Quickening Maze Ngugi Wa Thiongo, edward St. Aubyn iAn McEwan simon Mawer and Mother’s Milk On Chesil Beach The Glass Room Dubravka Ugresic Ludmila Ulitskaya. sArah Waters indra Sinha sArah Waters The Night Watch Animal’s People The Little Stranger
The Judges were The Judges were The Judges were Hermione Lee (Chair), Simon Armitage, The Judges were James Naughtie (Chair), Lucasta Miller, John Jane Smiley (Chair), Amit Chaudhuri and Candia McWilliam, Anthony Quinn and Howard Davies (Chair), Wendy Cope, Giles Mullan, Sue Perkins and Michael Prodger. Andrey Kurkov. Fiona Shaw. Foden, Ruth Scurr, and Imogen Stubbs. 2006 2007 2009 2009 Women and the Booker Prize – The Winners
Beryl Bainbridge Hilary Mantel Eleanor Catton Lydia Davis Master Georgie (1998) Bring Up the Bodies The Luminaries For her life’s work The Man Booker Best of Beryl International Prize
Also shortlisted Also shortlisted Also shortlisted Also shortlisted The Dressmaker Tan Twan Eng Noviolet Bulawayo U R Ananthamurthy, Aharon Appelfeld, 1973 The Garden of Evening Mists We Need New Names Intizar Husain, Yan Lianke, Marie NDiaye, the Bottle Factory Outing deborah Levy Jim Crace Josip Novakovich, Marilynne Robinson, 1974 Swimming Home Harvest Vladimir Sorokin, and Peter Stamm. An Awfully Big Adventure Alison Moore Jhumpa Lahiri 1990 The Lighthouse The Lowland every Man for Himself will Self ruth Ozeki 1996 Umbrella A Tale for the Time Being Jeet Thayil colm Tóibín Narcopolis The Testament of Mary
The winner was decided by public vote. The Judges were The Judges were The Judges were Sir Peter Stothard (Chair), Dinah Birch, Robert Macfarlane (Chair), Robert Douglas- Sir Christopher Ricks (Chair), Elif Batuman, Amanda Foreman, Dan Stevens and Fairhurst, Natalie Haynes, Martha Kearney Aminatta Forna, Yiyun Li, and Tim Parks. Bharat Tandon. and Stuart Kelly. 2011 2012 2013 2013