Man Booker Prize Winners
Man Booker Prize is an award given to literature every year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK. It is also known as known as the Booker–McConnell Prize. Man Booker prize generally assures the winner, international renown and success and has great significance for the book trade. This article discusses on the list of Man Booker Prize Winners.
List of Man Booker Winners since is a very important topic of General Awareness. Every year, questions are asked in various competitive exams like SSC Exams, IBPS Exams, Railway Exams etc.
List of the Man Booker Winners since (1968- 2017):
- 2016
The Sellout, by Paul Beatty
United States - 2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marlon James
Jamaica - 2014
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan
Australia - 2013
The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton
Canada / New Zealand - 2012
Bring Up The Bodies, by Hilary Mantel
United Kingdom - 2011
The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes
United Kingdom - 2010
The Finkler Question, by Howard Jacobson
United Kingdom - 2009
Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
United Kingdom - 2008
The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga
India - 2007
The Gathering, by Anne Enright
Ireland - 2006
The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai
India - 2005
The Sea, by John Banville
Ireland - 2004
The Line of Beauty, by Allan Hollnghurst
United Kingdom - 2003
Vernon God Little, by DBC Pierre
Australia - 2002
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
Canada - 2001
True History of the Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey
Australia - The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood
Canada - Disgrace, by J.Coetzee
South Africa 1998 - Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan
United Kingdom - The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy
India - Last Orders, by Graham Swift
United Kingdom - The Ghost Road, by Pat Barker
United Kingdom - How Late It Was, How Late, by James Kelman
United Kingdom - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, by Roddy Doyle
Ireland - Sacred Hunger, by Barry Unsworth
United Kingdom - The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje
Canada / Sri Lanka - The Famished Road, by Ben Okri
Nigeria - Possession, by A. S. Byatt
United Kingdom - The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro
United Kingdom / Japan - Oscar and Lucinda, by Peter Carey
Australia - Moon Tiger, by Penelope Lively
United Kingdom - The Old Devils, by Kingsley Amis
United Kingdom - The Bone People, by Keri Hulme
New Zealand - Hotel du Lac, by Anita Brookner
United Kingdom - Life & Times of Michael K, by J. M. Coetzee
South Africa - Schindler’s Ark, by Thomas Keneally
Australia - Midnight’s Children, by Salman Rushdie
United Kingdom / India - Rites of Passage, by William Golding
United Kingdom - Offshore, by Penelope Fitzgerald
United Kingdom - The Sea, The Sea, by Iris Murdoch
Ireland / United Kingdom - Staying On, by Paul Scott
United Kingdom - 1976
Saville, by David Storey
United Kingdom - Heat and Dust, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
United Kingdom / Germany - The Conservationist, by Nadine Gordimer
South Africa - Holiday, by Stanlely Middleton
United Kingdom - The Siege of Krishnapur, by J.G. Farrell
United Kingdom / Ireland - G, by John Berger
United Kingdom - In a Free State (short story), by V. S. Naipaul
United Kingdom / Trinidad and Tobago - Troubles, by J. G. Farrell
United Kingdom / Ireland - The Elected Member, by Bernice Rubens
United Kingdom - Something to Answer For, by P. H. Newby
United Kingdom
Who is The First Indian Woman To Win Man Booker Prize??
First Indian Woman To Win Man Booker Prize is Arundhati Roy (born on November 24, 1961) won the Booker prize for her brilliant and poetic novel “The God of Small Things” in the year 1997 making her the first Indian to receive the prestigious award.
List of Indian Booker Prize Winners
|
Year |
Name |
Name of Work |
|
1971 |
V.S. Naipaul |
Ina Free State |
|
1980 |
Anita Desai |
Clear Right Day |
|
1981 |
Salman Rushdie |
Midnight’s Children |
|
1993 |
Salman Rushdie Booker of Booker(Best Novel in 25 Years of Booker) |
Midnight’s Children |
|
1997 |
Arundhati Roy* |
The God of Small Thing |
|
2002 |
Rohinton Mistry |
Such a Long journey |
|
2006 |
Kiran Desai |
The Inheritance of Loss |
|
2007 |
Indra Sinha |
Animal People |
|
2008 |
Arvind Adiga* |
The White Tiger |
|
2011 |
Amitav Ghosh |
River of Smoke |
|
2012 |
Jeet Thayil |
Narcopolis |
Nobel Prize Winners 2017 – Award Winners List
| The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 | Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne(for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves) |
| The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 | Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson(for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution) |
| The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 | Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young(for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm) |
| The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 | Kazuo Ishiguro(who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world) |
| The Nobel Peace Prize 2017 | International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ICAN(for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons) |
| The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences | Richard H. Thaler
(for his contributions to behavioural economics) |
Books and Authors – Autobiographies
Autobiographies are self-written biographies. Here are some autobiographies that have made a global impact and are related to important causes:
|
Books |
Author |
|
I am Malala |
Malala Yousafzai |
|
The Autobiography Of |
Benjamin |
|
Long Walk to Freedom |
Nelson Mandela |
|
Story Of my Experiments |
Mahatma |
|
An autobiography of |
Agatha |
|
Wings of Fire |
A P J Abdul |
|
An autobiography |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
|
Playing It My way |
Sachin Tendulkar |
|
Straight From the |
Kapil Dev |
|
Story of my Life |
Hellen Keller |
|
The Bandit Queen |
Phoolan Devi |
|
Truth Love and a |
Khushwant |
|
Why I am an Atheist |
Bhagat Singh |
|
Baburnama |
Babur |
|
The autobiography of Malcolm X |
Malcolm X |
|
Up From Slavery |
Robert T Washington |
|
Unbroken |
Laura |
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