Booker-verðlaunin

Booker-bókmenntaverðlaunin eru ein virtustu bókmenntarverðlaun heims og eru veitt á hverju ári rithöfundi sem er þegn Breska samveldisins eða Írlands. Booker fyrirtækið stofnaði til verðlaunanna árið 1968. Til að tryggja að einungis fyrsta flokks bækur séu valdar eru dómarar valdir úr einvalaliði gagnrýnenda, rithöfunda og háskólamanna. Síðan 2002 hafa verðlaunin gengið undir nafninu „Man Booker verðlaunin“, vegna stuðnings fjárfestingarfélagsins Man Group plc.. Rússnesk útgáfa verðlaunanna var sett á fót árið 1992.

Forval bókanna getur verið tvenns konar. Bókaútgefendur geta sent inn handrit, eða dómarar geta beðið um að ákveðin handrit eða bækur séu sendar inn. Árið 2003 voru 110 bækur sendar inn af útgefendum, en dómarar báðu um að 10 bókum væri bætt við það.

Hér að neðan er listi yfir verðlaunahafa og tilnefningar til Booker-verðlaunanna. Nöfn verðlaunahafa eru tilgreind fremst fyrir hvert ár og feitletruð. Íslensk nöfn þeirra bóka sem komið hafa út á íslensku eru tilgreind aftan við upprunaleg nöfn.

• 1969: Percy Howard Newby, Something to Answer For
  • Barry England, Figures in a Landscape
  • Nicholas Mosley, Impossible Object
  • Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good
  • Muriel Spark, The Public Image
  • G. M. Williams, From Scenes like These

• 1970: Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
  • A. L. Barker, John Brown's Body
  • Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout
  • Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream
  • William Trevor, Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel
  • T. W. Wheeler, The Conjunction

• 1971: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, In a Free State
  • Thomas Kilroy, The Big Chapel
  • Doris Lessing, Briefing for a Descent into Hell
  • Mordecai Richler, St Urbain's Horseman
  • Derek Robinson, Goshawk Squadron
  • Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

• 1972: John Berger, G
  • Susan Hill, Bird of Night
  • Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
  • David Storey, Pasmore

• 1973: James Gordon Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur
  • Beryl Bainbridge, The Dressmaker
  • Elizabeth Mavor, The Green Equinox
  • Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince (Svarti prinsinn)

• 1974: Nadine Gordimer, The Conservationist, og Stanley Middleton, Holiday
  • Kingsley Amis, Ending Up
  • Beryl Bainbridge, The Bottle Factory Outing
  • C. P. Snow, In Their Wisdom

• 1975: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
  • Thomas Keneally, Gossip from the Forest

• 1976: David Storey, Saville
  • André Brink, An Instant in the Wind
  • R. C. Hutchinson, Rising
  • Brian Moore, The Doctor's Wife
  • Julian Rathbone, King Fisher Lives
  • William Trevor, The Children of Dynmouth

• 1977: Paul Scott, Staying On
  • Paul Bailey, Peter Smart's Confessions
  • Caroline Blackwood, Great Granny Webster
  • Jennifer Johnston, Shadows on our Skin
  • Penelope Lively, The Road to Lichfield
  • Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn

• 1978: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea (Hafið, hafið)
  • Kingsley Amis, Jake's Thing
  • André Brink, Rumours of Rain
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
  • Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks
  • Bernice Rubens, A Five-Year Sentence

• 1979: Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore
  • Thomas Kneally, Confederates
  • Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, A Bend in the River
  • Julian Rathbone, Joseph
  • Fay Weldon, Praxis

• 1980: William Golding, Rites of Passage
  • Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
  • Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
  • Alice Munro, The Beggar Maid
  • Julian O'Faolain, No Country for Young
  • Barry Unsworth, Pascali's Island
  • J. L. Carr, A Month in the Country

• 1981: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (Miðnæturbörn)
  • Molly Keane, Good Behaviour
  • Doris Lessing, The Sirian Experiments
  • Ian McEwan, The Comfort of Strangers
  • Ann Schlee, Rhine Journey
  • Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent
  • D. M. Thomas, The White Hotel

• 1982: Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark (Listi Schindlers)
  • John Arden, Silence Among the Weapons
  • William Boyd, An Ice-Cream War
  • Lawrence Durrell, Constance or Solitary
  • Alice Thomas Ellis, The 27th Kingdom
  • Timothy Mo, Sour Sweet

• 1983: J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K
  • Malcolm Bradbury, Rates of Exchange
  • John Fuller, Flying to Nowhere
  • Anita Mason, The Illusionist
  • Salman Rushdie, Shame
  • Graham Swift, Waterland

• 1984: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
  • J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
  • Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
  • Anita Desai, In Custody
  • Penelope Lively, According to Mark
  • David Lodge, Small World

• 1985: Keri Hulme, The Bone People
  • Peter Carey, Illywhacker
  • J. L. Carr, The Battle of Pollocks Crossing
  • Doris Lessing, The Good Terrorist
  • Jan Morris, Last Letters from Hav
  • Iris Murdoch, The Good Apprentice

• 1986: Kingsley Amis, The Old Devils
  • Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (Saga þernunnar)
  • Paul Bailey, Gabriel's Lament
  • Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone
  • Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
  • Timothy Mo, An Insular Possession

• 1987: Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
  • Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
  • Peter Ackroyd, Chatterton
  • Nina Bawden, Circles of Deceit
  • Brian Moore, The Colour of Blood
  • Iris Murdoch, The Book and the Brotherhood

• 1988: Peter Carey, Oscar and Lucinda
  • Bruce Chatwin, Utz
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, The Beginning of Spring
  • David Lodge, Nice Work
  • Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (Söngvar satans)
  • Marina Warner, The Lost Father

• 1989: Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (Dreggjar dagsins)
  • Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
  • John Banville, The Book of Evidence
  • Sybille Bedford, Jigsaw
  • James Kelman, A Disaffection
  • Rose Tremain, Restoration

• 1990: Antonia Susan Byatt, Possession
  • Beryl Bainbridge, An Awfully Big Adventure
  • John McGahern, Amongst Women
  • Brian Moore, Lies of Silence
  • Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here

• 1991: Ben Okri, The Famished Road
  • Martin Amis, Time's Arrow
  • Roddy Doyle, The Van
  • Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
  • Timothy Mo, The Redundancy of Courage
  • William Trevor, Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives)

• 1992: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (Enski sjúklingurinn), og Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger
  • Christoper Hope, Serenity House
  • Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy
  • Ian McEwan, Black Dogs
  • Michèle Roberts, Daughters of the House

• 1993: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Paddy Clarke, ha, ha, ha)
  • Tibor Fisher, Under the Frog
  • Michael Ignatieff, Scar Tissue
  • David Malouf, Remembering Babylon
  • Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River
  • Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

• 1994: James Kelman, How late it was, how late
  • Romesh Gunesekera, Reef
  • Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise
  • Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star
  • George Mackay Brown, Beside the Ocean of Time
  • Jill Paton Walsh, Knowledge of Angels

• 1995: Pat Barker, The Ghost Road
  • Justin Cartwright, In Every Face I Meet
  • Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh (Síðasta andvarp Márans)
  • Barry Unsworth, Morality Play
  • Tim Winton, The Riders

• 1996: Graham Swift, Last Orders (Hestaskálin)
  • Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
  • Beryl Bainbridge, Every Man for Himself
  • Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark
  • Shena Mackay, The Orchard on Fire
  • Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

• 1997: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (Guð hins smáa)
  • Jim Crace, Quarantine
  • Mick Jackson, The Underground Man
  • Bernard MacLaverty, Grace Notes
  • Tim Parks, Europa
  • Madeline St John, The Essence of the Thing

• 1998: Ian McEwan, Amsterdam (Amsterdam)
  • Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie
  • Julian Barnes, England England
  • Martin Booth, The Industry of Souls
  • Patrick McCabe, Breakfast on Pluto
  • Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts (Taumhald á skepnum)

• 1999: J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (Vansæmd)
  • Anita Desai, Fasting, Feasting
  • Michael Frayn, Headlong
  • Andrew O'Hagan, Our Fathers
  • Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love
  • Colm Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship

• 2000: Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
  • Trezza Azzopardi, The Hiding Place
  • Michael Collins, The Keepers of Truth
  • Kazuo Ishiguro, When we were Orphans (Veröld okkar vandalausra)
  • Matthew Kneale, English Passengers
  • Brian O'Doherty, The Deposition of Father McGeevy

• 2001: Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
  • Ian McEwan, Atonement (Friðþæging)
  • Andrew Miller, Oxygen
  • David Mitchell, [number9dream
  • Rachel Seiffert, The Dark Room
  • Ali Smith, Hotel World

• 2002: Yann Martel, Life of Pi (Sagan af Pí)
  • Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters
  • Carol Shields, Unless
  • William Trevor, The Story of Lucy Gault
  • Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
  • Tim Winton, Dirt Music

• 2003: D.B.C. Pierre, Vernon God Little
  • Monica Ali, Brick Lane
  • Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
  • Damon Galgut, The Good Doctor
  • Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal
  • Clare Morrall, Astonishing Splashes of Colour

• 2004: Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
  • Achmat Dangor, Bitter Fruit
  • Sarah Hall, The Electric Michelangelo
  • David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
  • Colm Tóibín, The Master
  • Gerard Woodward, I'll Go to Bed at Noon

• 2005: John Banville, The Sea
  • Julian Barnes, Arthur & George
  • Sebastian Barry, A Long Long Way
  • Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (Slepptu mér aldrei)
  • Ali Smith, The Accidental
  • Zadie Smith, On Beauty

• 2006: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss
  • Kate Grenville, The Secret River
  • M. J. Hyland, Carry Me Down
  • Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men
  • Edward St Aubyn, Mother's Milk (novel)|Mother's Milk
  • Sarah Waters, The Night Watch

• 2007: Anne Enright, The Gathering
  • Nicola Barker, Darkmans
  • Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
  • Lloyd Jones, Mister Pip
  • Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach
  • Indra Sinha,, Animal's People