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Booker Prize Winners

The Booker Prize recognises the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and/or Ireland. Explore selected recent winners, then use the official archive for the complete list since 1969.

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Recent winners

2025
Flesh
David Szalay
2024
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
2023
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
2022
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka
2021
The Promise
Damon Galgut
2020
The Mirror & the Light
Hilary Mantel
2019
The Testaments
Margaret Atwood · Girl, Woman, Other · Bernardine Evaristo
2018
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
2017
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
2016
The Sellout
Paul Beatty

Read across the festival

Follow the official Booker pages for longlists, shortlists, judges and author features; use the V.L.F. catalogue for related books, criticism and translation.