2008 Man Booker Prize

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The 2008 Man Booker Prize was awarded at a ceremony on 14 October 2008. The prize was awarded to Aravind Adiga for The White Tiger.

Judges

Shortlist

Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country	Publisher
Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger	Picaresque novel	India	Atlantic
Sebastian Barry	The Secret Scripture	Novel	Ireland	Faber & Faber
Amitav Ghosh	Sea of Poppies	Novel	India	John Murray
Linda Grant	The Clothes on Their Backs	Novel	UK	Virago
Philip Hensher	The Northern Clemency	Novel	UK	4th Estate
Steve Toltz	A Fraction of the Whole	Novel	Australia	Hamish Hamilton

Longlist

Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country	Publisher
Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger	Picaresque novel	India	Atlantic
Gaynor Arnold	Girl in a Blue Dress	Novel	UK	Tindal Street Press
Sebastian Barry	The Secret Scripture	Novel	Ireland	Faber & Faber
John Berger	From A to X	Novel	UK	Verso
Michelle de Kretser	The Lost Dog	Novel	Australia	Chatto & Windus
Amitav Ghosh	Sea of Poppies	Novel	India	John Murray
Linda Grant	The Clothes on Their Backs	Novel	UK	Virago
Mohammed Hanif	A Case of Exploding Mangoes	Novel	UK	Jonathan Cape
Philip Hensher	The Northern Clemency	Novel	UK	4th Estate
Joseph O'Neill	Netherland	Novel	Ireland	4th Estate
Salman Rushdie	The Enchantress of Florence	Novel	UK	Jonathan Cape
Tom Rob Smith	Child 44	Thriller	UK	Simon & Schuster
Steve Toltz	A Fraction of the Whole	Novel	Australia	Hamish Hamilton

Sources

2008 Man Booker Prize

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) 2023: Paul Lynch (Prophet Song) 2024: Samantha Harvey (Orbital)