Previous winners - 1997

Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things
Flamingo

Shortlisted Authors:

Jim Crace
Quarantine
Viking

Mick Jackson
The Underground Man
Picador

Bernard MacLaverty
Grace Notes
Cape

Tim Parks
Europa
Secker & Warburg

Madeleine St John
The Essence of the Thing
Fourth Estate

Judges:

Professor Gillian Beer (Chair)
Rachel Billington
Jason Cowley
Jan Dalley
Professor Dan Jacobson

Select a year to see previous winners and shortlisted authors:

2005 - John Banville, The Sea

2004 - Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty

2003 - DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little

2002 - Yann Martel, Life of Pi

2001 - Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang

2000 - Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

1999 - J M Coetzee, Disgrace

1998 - Ian McEwan, Amsterdam

1997 - Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

1996 - Graham Swift, Last Orders

1995 - Pat Barker, The Ghost Road

1994 - James Kelman, How Late It Was, How Late

1993 - Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

1992 - Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
1992 - Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger

1991 - Ben Okri, The Famished Road

1990 - A S Byatt, Possession

1989 - Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

1988 - Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda

1987 - Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

1986 - Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils

1985 - Keri Hulme, The Bone People

1984 - Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac

1983 - J M Coetzee, Life & Times of Michael K

1982 - Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark

1981 - Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

1980 - William Golding, Rites of Passage

1979 - Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore

1978 - Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

1977 - Paul Scott, Staying On

1976 - David Storey, Saville

1975 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust

1974 - Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist
1974 - Stanley Middleton, Holiday

1973 - J G Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur

1972 - John Berger, G

1971 - V S Naipaul, In a Free State

1970 - Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member

1969 - P H Newby, Something to Answer For


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