Current and historical winners of the Booker Prize, with links to further information at BookBrowse.

Booker Prize

Awarded in October each year, the Booker Prize is the UK's top literary prize and the most watched single-book award in the English-speaking world. Until 2013 the award was open only to citizens of the Commonwealth of nations (in essence, the UK and former British colonies). As of 2014 the award is open to authors worldwide so long as their work is in English and published in the UK. The International Booker Prize is awarded each May for a single work of fiction, translated into English and published in Ireland or the UK.

Current and Previous Award Winners:

• 2026
• 2025
• 2024
• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002

• 2026

  
  International Booker Prize:
  Taiwan Travelogue  by  Shuang-zi Yang

• 2025

  
  Booker Prize:
  Flesh  by  David Szalay
  
  International Booker Prize:
  Heart Lamp  by  Banu Mushtaq

• 2024

  
  Booker Prize:
  Orbital  by  Samantha Harvey
  
  International Booker Prize:
  Kairos  by  Jenny Erpenbeck

• 2023

  
  Booker Prize:
  Prophet Song  by  Paul Lynch
  
  International Booker Prize:
  Time Shelter  by  Georgi Gospodinov

• 2022

  
  Booker Prize:
  The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida  by  Shehan Karunatilaka
  
  International Booker Prize:
  Tomb of Sand  by  Geetanjali Shree

• 2021

  
  Booker Prize:
  The Promise  by  Damon Galgut
  
  International Booker Prize:
  At Night All Blood Is Black  by  David Diop

• 2020

  
  Booker Prize:
  Shuggie Bain  by  Douglas Stuart
  
  International Booker Prize:
  The Discomfort of Evening  by  Lucas Rijneveld

• 2019

  
  Booker Prize:
  The Testaments  by  Margaret Atwood
  
  Booker Prize:
  Girl, Woman, Other  by  Bernardine Evaristo
  
  International Booker Prize:
  Celestial Bodies  by  Jokha Alharthi

• 2018

  
  Booker Prize:
  Milkman  by  Anna Burns
  
  International Booker Prize:
  Flights  by  Olga Tokarczuk

• 2017

  
  Booker Prize:
  Lincoln in the Bardo  by  George Saunders
  
  International Booker Prize:
  A Horse Walks into a Bar  by  David Grossman

• 2016

  
  Booker Prize:
  The Sellout  by  Paul Beatty
  
  International Booker Prize:
  The Vegetarian  by  Han Kang

• 2015

  
  Booker Prize:
  A Brief History of Seven Killings  by  Marlon Jones

• 2014

  
  Booker Prize:
  The Narrow Road to the Deep North  by  Richard Flanagan

• 2013

  
  Booker Prize:
  The Luminaries  by  Eleanor Catton

• 2012

  
  Booker Prize:
  Bring Up the Bodies  by  Hilary Mantel

• 2011

  
  Booker Prize:
  The Sense of an Ending  by  Julian Barnes

• 2010

  
  Booker Prize:
  The Finkler Question  by  Howard Jacobson
  
  Booker Prize:
  The Finkler Question  by  Howard Jacobson

• 2009

  
  Booker Prize:
  Wolf Hall  by  Hilary Mantel

• 2008

  
  Booker Prize:
  The White Tiger  by  Aravind Adiga

• 2007

  
  Booker Prize:
  The Gathering  by  Anne Enright

• 2006

  
  Booker Prize:
  The Inheritance of Loss  by  Kiran Desai

• 2005

  
  Booker Prize:
  The Sea  by  John Banville

• 2004

  
  Booker Prize:
  The Line of Beauty  by  Alan Hollinghurst

• 2003

  
  Booker Prize:
  Vernon God Little  by  D.B.C. Pierre

• 2002

  
  Booker Prize:
  Life of Pi  by  Yann Martel