2008 Man Booker Prize
The 2008 Man Booker Prize was awarded at a ceremony on 14 October 2008. The prize was awarded to Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger.
Judges
- Michael Portillo (Chair)
- Alex Clark
- Louise Doughty
- James Heneage
- Hardeep Singh Kohli
Shortlist
Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
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Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger | Picaresque novel | India | Atlantic |
Sebastian Barry | The Secret Scripture | Novel | Ireland | Faber & Faber |
Amitav Ghosh | Sea of Poppies | Novel | India | John Murray |
Linda Grant | The Clothes on Their Backs | Novel | UK | Virago |
Philip Hensher | The Northern Clemency | Novel | UK | 4th Estate |
Steve Toltz | A Fraction of the Whole | Novel | Australia | Hamish Hamilton |
Longlist
Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Aravind Adiga | The White Tiger | Picaresque novel | India | Atlantic |
Gaynor Arnold | Girl in a Blue Dress | Novel | UK | Tindal Street Press |
Sebastian Barry | The Secret Scripture | Novel | Ireland | Faber & Faber |
John Berger | From A to X | Novel | UK | Verso |
Michelle de Kretser | The Lost Dog | Novel | Australia | Chatto & Windus |
Amitav Ghosh | Sea of Poppies | Novel | India | John Murray |
Linda Grant | The Clothes on Their Backs | Novel | UK | Virago |
Mohammed Hanif | A Case of Exploding Mangoes | Novel | UK | Jonathan Cape |
Philip Hensher | The Northern Clemency | Novel | UK | 4th Estate |
Joseph O'Neill | Netherland | Novel | Ireland | 4th Estate |
Salman Rushdie | The Enchantress of Florence | Novel | UK | Jonathan Cape |
Tom Rob Smith | Child 44 | Thriller | UK | Simon & Schuster |
Steve Toltz | A Fraction of the Whole | Novel | Australia | Hamish Hamilton |
Sources
- 2008 Man Booker Prize
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Recipients of the Booker Prize
- 1969: P. H. Newby (Something to Answer For)
- 1970: Bernice Rubens (The Elected Member)
- 1970 Lost Prize: J. G. Farrell (Troubles)
- 1971: V. S. Naipaul (In a Free State)
- 1972: John Berger (G.)
- 1973: J. G. Farrell (The Siege of Krishnapur)
- 1974: Nadine Gordimer (The Conservationist) and Stanley Middleton (Holiday)
- 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Heat and Dust)
- 1976: David Storey (Saville)
- 1977: Paul Scott (Staying On)
- 1978: Iris Murdoch (The Sea, The Sea)
- 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald (Offshore)
- 1980: William Golding (Rites of Passage)
- 1981: Salman Rushdie (Midnight's Children)
- 1982: Thomas Keneally (Schindler's Ark)
- 1983: J. M. Coetzee (Life & Times of Michael K)
- 1984: Anita Brookner (Hotel du Lac)
- 1985: Keri Hulme (The Bone People)
- 1986: Kingsley Amis (The Old Devils)
- 1987: Penelope Lively (Moon Tiger)
- 1988: Peter Carey (Oscar and Lucinda)
- 1989: Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day)
- 1990: A. S. Byatt (Possession)
- 1991: Ben Okri (The Famished Road)
- 1992: Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient) and Barry Unsworth (Sacred Hunger)
- 1993: Roddy Doyle (Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha)
- 1994: James Kelman (How Late It Was, How Late)
- 1995: Pat Barker (The Ghost Road)
- 1996: Graham Swift (Last Orders)
- 1997: Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things)
- 1998: Ian McEwan (Amsterdam)
- 1999: J. M. Coetzee (Disgrace)
- 2000: Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)
- 2001: Peter Carey (True History of the Kelly Gang)
- 2002: Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
- 2003: DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little)
- 2004: Alan Hollinghurst (The Line of Beauty)
- 2005: John Banville (The Sea)
- 2006: Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss)
- 2007: Anne Enright (The Gathering)
- 2008: Aravind Adiga (The White Tiger)
- 2009: Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall)
- 2010: Howard Jacobson (The Finkler Question)
- 2011: Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending)
- 2012: Hilary Mantel (Bring Up the Bodies)
- 2013: Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries)
- 2014: Richard Flanagan (The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
- 2015: Marlon James (A Brief History of Seven Killings)
- 2016: Paul Beatty (The Sellout)
- 2017: George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo)
- 2018: Anna Burns (Milkman)
- 2019: Margaret Atwood (The Testaments) and Bernardine Evaristo (Girl, Woman, Other)
- 2020: Douglas Stuart (Shuggie Bain)
- 2021: Damon Galgut (The Promise)
- 2022: Shehan Karunatilaka (The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida)
- 2023: Paul Lynch (Prophet Song)