Literary Awards
( underlined : entry in EBOA ; s-l: short-listed )
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Man Booker Prize |
Whitbread / Costa Book Award *Book of the Year |
Orange Prize / Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction |
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2000 |
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (historical) CAN |
Matthew Kneale, English Passengers* 1st: Zadie Smith, White Teeth |
Linda Grant, When I Lived in Modern Times |
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2001 |
Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang (historical) AUS |
Patrick Neate, Twelve Bar Blues 1st: Sid Smith, Something Like a House |
Kate Grenville, The Idea of Perfection s-l: Atwood, The Blind Assassin |
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2002 |
Yan Martel, Life of Pi (fantasy, adventure) CAN |
Michael Frayn, Spies 1st: Norman Lebrecht, The Song of Names |
Ann Patchett, Bel Canto |
Ian McEwan, Atonement (National Book Critics Circle Award) |
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2003 |
DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little, (black comedy, [satire] ) AUS |
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time* 1st: DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little |
Valerie Martin, Property s-l: Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man |
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2004 |
Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, (historical) |
Andrea Levy, Small Island* 1st: Susan Fletcher, Eve Green |
Andrea Levy, Small Island s-l: Atwood, Oryx and Crake |
Marilyn Robinson [USA], Gilead (National Book Critics Circle Award) |
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2005 |
John Banville, The Sea ([aging, childhood]) IRELAND |
Ali Smith, The Accidental 1st: Tash Aw, The Harmony Silk Factory |
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talke About Kevin “Orange of Oranges”: Levy, Small Island |
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2006 |
Kiran Desai, the Inheritance of Loss ([cultural clash, migration] ) INDIA |
William Boyd, Restless 1st: Stef Penney, The Tenderness of Wolves* |
Zadie Smith, On Beauty, s-l: H. Mantel, Beyond Black |
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2007 |
Anne Enright, The Gathering ([domestic drama])IRELAND |
A. L. Kennedy, Day * 1st: Clatherine O'Flynn, What Was Lost |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun s-l: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss |
Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (National Book Critics Circle Award) |
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2008 |
Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger ([social ]) INDIA |
Sebastian Barry, The Secret Cripture * 1st: Sadie Jones, The Oucast |
Rose Tremain, The Road Home |
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2009 |
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (historical) |
Colm Tóibin, Brooklyn 1st: Raphael Selbourne, Beauty |
Marilyn Robinson, Home |
Mantel, Wolf Hall (National Book Critics Circle Award) |
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2010 |
Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question (comic) |
Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine 1st: Kishwar Desai, Witness the Night |
Barbara Kingslover, The Lacuna s-l: H. Mantel, Wolf Hall |
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2011 |
Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending ([]) |
Andrew Miller, Pure * 1st: Christie Watson, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away |
Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife |
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2012 |
Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies (historical) |
Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies * 1st: Francesca Segal, The Innocents |
Madeline Miller, the Song of achilles s-l: Anne Enright, The Forgotten Waltz Ann Patchett, State of Wonder |
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2013 |
Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (historical), NZ |
Kate Atkinson, Life After Life 1st: Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall*
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A. M. Homes, May We Be forgiven s-l: H. Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies Zadie Smith, NW |
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Man Booke Prize : full-length novel in English, “only English-language writers from the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and the Commonwealth countries were eligible. In 2013, however, it was announced that the prize would be open to English-language writers worldwide from 2014” (EBOA)
“the best-known literary prize in Britain” (Childs 2005, 33)
“Publishers choose the novels in the running for the Booker, whose small management committee includes three publishers, an agent, a librarian, a public relations consultant, and one author (the awarding panel itself has an academic, a critics or two, a writer or two, and a 'celebrity' who, a little paradoxically, represents the 'person in the street')” (Childs 2005, 33)
Whitbread / Costa Book Award . “writers resident in the United Kingdom and Ireland for books published there in the previous year. Established in 1971 and initially sponsored by the British corporation Whitbread PLC, the awards are given annually and are administered by the British Booksellers Association.” (“Costa Book Award” EBOA)
“the richest annual literary award” (Childs 2005, 33)
“the Booker [is] sometimes accused of being middle-brow and populist whereas the Whitbread, perhaps because it is less well-known, cast as a more worthy 'alternative' award” (Childs 2005, 33)
Orange / Baileys Women's Prize : novels written in English by a woman in the previous year. Translations were not eligible, but publishers could submit works by women of all nationalities, provided that the works had been released in the United Kingdom during the previous year.” (“Women's Prize for Fiction” EBOA)
In USA:
National Book Critics Circle Award, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Childs, Peter. Contemporary Novelists: British Fiction since 1970. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
EBOA: Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Academic Edition