2019 Booker Prize

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 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

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

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v t e Recipients of the Booker Prize
List of winners and nominated authors The Best of the Booker The Golden Man Booker International Booker Prize
1969–79	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)
1980s	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)
1990s	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)
2000s	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)
2010s	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)
2020s	2020: Douglas Stuart (Shuggie Bain) 2021: Damon Galgut (The Promise) 2022: Shehan Karunatilaka (The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida)

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