{"id":20311,"date":"2026-02-18T23:33:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?page_id=20311"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:12:50","slug":"booker-prize","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/booker-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Booker Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards in the English-speaking world. Established in 1969, it is awarded each year to the best original novel written in English and published in the UK or Ireland. The winner\n receives \u00a350’000. Renowned for its influence, the prize often brings international recognition to its winners and shortlisted authors, significantly boosting book sales and visibility. Over time, it has highlighted both established\n and emerging writers, shaping contemporary literature and reading trends.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

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Books read<\/span><\/p>\n

1996 : <\/span>\n Last Orders<\/a> – Graham Swift
1998 : Amsterdam – Ian McEwan<\/span>\n
2019 : \n Girl, Woman, Other<\/a> – Bernardine Evaristo<\/span>\n
2022 : <\/span>\n The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida <\/a>– Shehan Karunatilaka<\/span>\n
2024 : <\/span>\n Orbital<\/a> – Samantha Harvey<\/span>\n
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Books to read<\/span><\/p>\n

1969 : Something to Answer For – P. H. Newby\n
1970 : The Elected Member – Bernice Rubens\n
1971 : In a Free State – V. S. Naipaul\n
1972 : G. – John Berger\n
1973 : The Siege of Krishnapur – J. G. Farrell\n
1974 : The Conservationist – Nadine Gordimer\n
Holiday – Stanley Middleton\n
1975 : Heat and Dust – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala\n
1976 : Saville – David Storey\n
1977 : Staying On – Paul Scott\n
1978 : The Sea, the Sea – Iris Murdoch\n
1979 : Offshore – Penelope Fitzgerald\n
1980 : Rites of Passage – William Golding\n
1981 : Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie\n
1982 : Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally\n
1983 : Life & Times of Michael K – J. M. Coetzee\n
1984 : Hotel du Lac – Anita Brookner\n
1985 : The Bone People – Keri Hulme\n
1986 : The Old Devil – Kingsley Amis\n
1987 : Moon Tiger – Penelope Lively\n
1988 : Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey\n
1989 : The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro\n
1990 : Possession – A. S. Byatt\n
1991 : The Famished Road – Ben Okri\n
1992 : The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje\n
Sacred Hunger – Barry Unsworth\n
1993 : Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha – Roddy Doyle\n
1994 : How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman\n
1995 : The Ghost Road – Pat Barker\n
1997 : The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy\n
1999 : Disgrace – J. M. Coetzee\n
2000 : The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood\n
2001 : True History of the Kelly Gang – Peter Carey\n
2002 : Life of Pi – Yann Martel\n
2003 : Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre\n
2004 : The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst\n
2005 : The Sea – John Banville\n
2006 : The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai\n
2007 : The Gathering – Anne Enright\n
2008 : The White Tiger – Aravind Adiga\n
2009 : Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel\n
2010 : The Finkler Question – Howard Jacobson\n
2011 : The Sense of an Ending – Julian Barnes\n
2012 : Bring Up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel\n
2013 : The Luminaries – Eleanor Catton\n
2014 : The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Richard Flanagan\n
2015 : A Brief History of Seven Killings – Marlon James\n
2016 : The Sellout – Paul Beatty\n
2017 : Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders\n
2018 : Milkman – Anna Burns\n
2019 : The Testaments – Margaret Atwood\n
2020 : Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart\n
2021 : The Promise – Damon Galgut\n
2023 : Prophet Song – Paul Lynch\n
2025 : Flesh – David Szalay<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Booker Prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards in the English-speaking world. Established in 1969, it is awarded each year to the best original novel written in English and published in the UK or Ireland. The winner receives \u00a350’000. Renowned for its influence, the prize often brings international recognition to its winners […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20317,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20311","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20311"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21397,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20311\/revisions\/21397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}