2019 Booker Prize
Literary award
Margaret Atwood (left) and Bernardine Evaristo (right), joint winners of the 2019 Booker Prize
The 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction was announced on 14 October 2019.[1] The Booker longlist of 13 books was announced on 23 July,[2] and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 3 September.[3] The Booker Prize was awarded jointly to Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other. This was the first time the prize was shared since 1992, despite a rule change banning joint winners.[1]
Judging panel
- Peter Florence (chair)
- Liz Calder
- Xiaolu Guo
- Afua Hirsch
- Joanna MacGregor
Nominees
indicates the winner
Shortlist
Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Margaret Atwood | The Testaments | Novel | Canada | Vintage, Chatto & Windus |
Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other | Novel | UK | Hamish Hamilton |
Lucy Ellmann | Ducks, Newburyport | Novel | USA/UK | Galley Beggar Press |
Chigozie Obioma | An Orchestra of Minorities | Novel | Nigeria | Little Brown |
Salman Rushdie | Quichotte | Novel | UK/India | Jonathan Cape |
Elif Shafak | 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World | Novel | UK/Turkey | Viking |
Longlist
Author | Title | Genre(s) | Country | Publisher |
---|---|---|---|---|
Margaret Atwood | The Testaments | Novel | Canada | Vintage, Chatto & Windus |
Kevin Barry | Night Boat to Tangier | Novel | Ireland | Canongate Books |
Oyinkan Braithwaite | My Sister, The Serial Killer | Novel | UK/Nigeria | Atlantic Books |
Lucy Ellmann | Ducks, Newburyport | Novel | USA/UK | Galley Beggar Press |
Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other | Novel | UK | Hamish Hamilton |
John Lanchester | The Wall | Novel | UK | Faber & Faber |
Deborah Levy | The Man Who Saw Everything | Novel | UK | Hamish Hamilton |
Valeria Luiselli | Lost Children Archive | Novel | Mexico/Italy | Fourth Estate |
Chigozie Obioma | An Orchestra of Minorities | Novel | Nigeria | Little Brown |
Max Porter | Lanny | Novel | UK | Faber & Faber |
Salman Rushdie | Quichotte | Novel | UK/India | Jonathan Cape |
Elif Shafak | 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World | Novel | UK/Turkey | Viking |
Jeanette Winterson | Frankissstein | Novel | UK | Jonathan Cape |
See also
References
- ^ a b Flood, Alison (14 October 2019). "Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share Booker prize 2019". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- ^ "Booker Prize 2019 longlist announced". Books+Publishing. 4 September 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
- ^ "Booker Prize 2019 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 4 September 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
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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)