List of Man Booker Prize Winners From 1969 to Till Date S.N. Year Name of Author Name of Country Book Title 2018 Anna Burns - Milkman 2017 George Saunders USA Lincoln in the Bardo – Novel 2016 Paul Beatty USA The Sellout – Comic Novel 2015 Marlon James Jamaica A Brief History of Seven Killings- Novel 2014 Richard Flanagan Australia The Narrow Road to the Deep North-Historical Novel 2013 Eleanor Catton Canada, (Born-New Zealand) The Luminaries-Historical Novel 2012 Hilary Mantel United Kingdom Bring Up the Bodies- Historical Novel 2011 Julian Barnes United Kingdom The Sense of an Ending- Novel 2010 Howard Jacobson United Kingdom The Finkler Question- Comic Novel 2009 Hilary Mantel United Kingdom Wolf Hall-Historical Novel 2008 Aravind Adiga India The White Tiger-Novel 2007 Anne Enright Ireland The Gathering-Novel 2006 Kiran Desai India The Inheritance of Loss-Novel 2005 John Banville Ireland The Sea-Novel 2004 Alan Hollinghurst United Kingdom The Line of Beauty- Historical Novel 2003 DBC Pierre Australia Vernon God Little-Black comedy 2002 Yann Martel Canada Life of Pi-Fantasy and adventure Novel 2001 Peter Carey Australia True History of the Kelly Gang- Historical Novel 2000 Margaret Atwood Canada The Blind Assassin-Historical Novel 1999 J. M. Coetzee South Africa Disgrace-Novel 1998 Ian McEwan United Kingdom Amsterdam-Novel 1997 Arundhati Roy India The God of Small Things-Novel 1996 Graham Swift United Kingdom Last Orders-Novel 1995 Pat Barker United Kingdom The Ghost Road-War Novel 1994 James Kelman United Kingdom How Late It Was, How Late-Stream of consciousness 1993 Roddy Doyle Ireland Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha-Novel 1992 Michael Ondaatje Canada The English Patient- Historiographic metafiction 1992 Barry Unsworth United Kingdom Sacred Hunger-Historical Novel 1991 Ben Okri Nigeria The Famished Road-Magic realism 1990 A. S. Byatt United Kingdom Possession-Historical Novel 1989 Kazuo Ishiguro United Kingdom The Remains of the Day- Historical Novel 1988 Peter Carey Australia Oscar and Lucinda-Historical Novel 1987 Penelope Lively United Kingdom Moon Tiger-Novel 1986 Kingsley Amis United Kingdom The Old Devils-Comic Novel 1985 Keri Hulme New Zealand The Bone People-Mystery Novel 1984 Anita Brookner United Kingdom Hotel du Lac-Novel 1983 J. M. Coetzee South Africa Life and Times of Michael K- Novel South Africa 1982 Thomas Keneally Australia Schindler’s Ark-Biographical Novel 1981 Salman Rushdie United Kingdom Midnight’s Children- Magic realism 1980 William Golding United Kingdom Rites of Passage-Novel 1979 Penelope Fitzgerald United Kingdom Offshore-Novel 1978 Iris Murdoch Ireland (Born-United Kingdom) The Sea, the Sea-Philosophical Novel 1977 Paul Scott United Kingdom Staying On-Novel 1976 David Storey United Kingdom Saville-Novel 1975 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala United Kingdom (Born-Germany) Heat and Dust-Historical Novel 1974 Nadine Gordimer South Africa The Conservationist-Novel 1974 Stanley Middleton United Kingdom Holiday-Novel 1973 J. G. Farrell United Kingdom (Born-Ireland) The Siege of Krishnapur-Novel 1972 John Berger United Kingdom G.-Experimental Novel 1971 V. S. Naipaul United Kingdom (Born- Trinidad and Tobago) In a Free State-Short story 1970 J. G. Farrell United Kingdom ;(Born- Ireland) Troubles- Novel 1970 Bernice Rubens United Kingdom The Elected Member- Novel 1969 P. H. Newby United Kingdom Something to Answer For- Novel .