FACTBOX - Booker Prize winners
LONDON (Reuters) - Author Salman Rushdie won the "Best of the Booker" prize on Thursday to mark the 40th anniversary of one of the world's most prestigious literary awards.
Following are the previous winners of the Booker Prize, which rewards the best novel each year by a writer from Britain, Ireland or a Commonwealth country.
Those shortlisted for the "Best of the Booker" prize are marked with an asterix.
1969 - P.H. Newby/Something to Answer For
1970 - Bernice Rubens/The Elected Member
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
- 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
- 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
(Source: www.themanbookerprize.com)
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