Full list of Booker Prize winners, shortlisted and longlisted authors and their books | The Booker Prizes

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Celebrating the best writers of long-form fiction, here is a definitive list of Booker-nominated authors and their novels, since the prize’s inception

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The Booker Prize is the world’s leading literary award for a single work of fiction. Founded in the UK in 1969, it initially rewarded Commonwealth writers and now spans the globe: it is open to anyone regardless of origin.

Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of our judges, the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. Find out more about the prize’s origins here. 

The winning book is a work that not only speaks to our current times, but also one that will endure and join the pantheon of great literature. 

The winner of the inaugural prize was P.H Newby in 1969, with his novel Something To Answer For. Since then, some of the world’s most acclaimed and celebrated writers have won the prize with an array of remarkable fiction, including V.S. Naipaul, Iris Murdoch, William Golding, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Bernardine Evaristo and Hilary Mantel, to name but a few. You can discover more authors and novels in the Booker Library, here. 

The winner of the Prize now receives £50,000, with £2,500 awarded to each of the shortlisted authors. Most recently, Prophet Song by Paul Lynch was announced as the winner of the Booker Prize 2023 at a ceremony in London.