2015 Man Booker Prize
The 2015 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 13 October 2015.[1] A longlist of thirteen titles was announced on 29 July, narrowed down to a shortlist of six titles on 15 September.[2]
Judging panel
- Michael Wood (Chair)
- Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
- John Burnside
- Sam Leith
- Frances Osborne[3]
Nominees (shortlist)
| Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marlon James | A Brief History of Seven Killings | Novel | Jamaica | Riverhead Books |
| Hanya Yanagihara | A Little Life | Novel | US | Doubleday Books |
| Anne Tyler | A Spool of Blue Thread | Novel | US | Knopf Publishing Group |
| Tom McCarthy | Satin Island | Novel | UK | Jonathan Cape |
| Chigozie Obioma | The Fishermen | Novel | Nigeria | Little, Brown and Company |
| Sunjeev Sahota | The Year of the Runaways | Novel | UK | Picador |
Nominees (longlist)
| Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marlon James | A Brief History of Seven Killings | Novel | Jamaica | Riverhead Books |
| Hanya Yanagihara | A Little Life | Novel | US | Doubleday Books |
| Anne Tyler | A Spool of Blue Thread | Novel | US | Knopf Publishing Group |
| Bill Clegg | Did You Ever Have a Family | Novel | US | Gallery/Scout |
| Marilynne Robinson | Lila | Novel | US | Virago Press |
| Tom McCarthy | Satin Island | Novel | UK | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Anuradha Roy | Sleeping on Jupiter | Novel | India | Quercus |
| Anna Smaill | The Chimes | Novel | New Zealand | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Chigozie Obioma | The Fishermen | Novel | Nigeria | Little, Brown and Company |
| Anne Enright | The Green Road | Novel | Ireland | McClelland & Stewart |
| Andrew O'Hagan | The Illuminations | Novel | UK | Macmillan Publishers |
| Laila Lalami | The Moor's Account | Novel | US | Pantheon Books |
| Sunjeev Sahota | The Year of the Runaways | Novel | UK | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Winner
On 13 October, chair judge Michael Wood announced that Jamaican author Marlon James had won the 2015 Man Booker Prize for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings. This is the first time that a Jamaican-born author has won the prize.[4][5][6]
See also
References
- ^ "Man Booker 2015". Man Booker Prize. Archived from the original on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ^ "Pulitzer winner makes Booker Prize shortlist". BBC News. 15 September 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
- ^ Brown, Mark (29 July 2015). "Man Booker prize 2015: US literary agent among 13 writers on longlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
- ^ "Man Booker Prize 2015: Marlon James wins for A Brief History of Seven Killings". BBC News. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
- ^ "Marlon James wins the Man Booker prize 2015". Guardian. 13 October 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
- ^ "A Brief History of Seven Killings is violent, shocking - and a worthy winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize". Daily Telegraph. 13 October 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2015.
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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)
