Man Booker Prize for Fiction

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction represents the very best in contemporary fiction. One of the world's most prestigious awards, and one of incomparable influence, it continues to be the pinnacle of ambition for every fiction writer.

2011

The winner is Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape - Random House)

The Shortlisted titles for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction were: -

• Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape - Random House)
• Carol Birch - Jamrach's Menagerie (Canongate Books)
• Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers (Granta)
• Esi Edugyan - Half Blood Blues (Serpent's Tail - Profile)
• Stephen Kelman - Pigeon English (Bloomsbury)
• A.D. Miller - Snowdrops (Atlantic)

The winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on Tuesday 18 October at a dinner at London's Guildhall.

Visit the website for more information http://www.themanbookerprize.com/ (external website)

2010

The winner is Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)

The shortlist titles were:  

• Peter Carey - Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)
• Emma Donoghue Room (Picador - Pan Macmillan)
• Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Atlantic Books - Grove Atlantic)
• Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)
• Andrea Levy The Long Song (Headline Review -
  Headline Publishing Group)
• Tom McCarthy C (Jonathan Cape - Random House)

2009

Hilary Mantel is the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for Wolf Hall, published by Fourth Estate.

Hilary Mantel's eleventh novel has been the bookies' favourite since the longlist was announced in July 2009. She is the first favourite to win the prize since Life of Pi by Yann Martel won in 2002 and went on to sell over a million copies.

The shortlisted titles were:

• The Children's Book by A S Byatt (Random House, Chatto and Windus)
• Summertime by J M Coetzee (Random House, Harvill Secker)
• The Quickening Maze by Adam Fould (Random House, Jonathan Cape)
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (HarperCollins, Fourth Estate)
• The Glass Room by Simon Mawer (Little, Brown)
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Little, Brown, Virago)

2008

Aravind Adiga  for his novel  The White Tiger 

Shortlist

• Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger 
• Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture
• Amitav Ghosh - Sea of Poppies
• Linda Grant - The Clothes on Their Backs
• Philip Hensher - The Northern Clemency
• Steve Toltz - A Fraction of the Whole

2007

Anne Enright  -  The Gathering is the winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize for fiction

Shortlist

• Nicola Barker - Darkmans
• Anne Enright - The Gathering
• Moshin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
• Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip
• Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach
• Indra Sinha - Animal's People

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