2016 Man Booker Prize

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Paul Beatty, winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize

The 2016 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 25 October 2016.^[1] The Man Booker dozen of 13 books was announced on 27 July, narrowed down to a shortlist of six titles on 13 September.^[2] Paul Beatty was awarded the 2016 Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout, receiving 50,000 pounds ($61,000), and becoming the first American author to be awarded the prize.^[3]

Judging panel

Nominees

indicates the winner

Shortlist

Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country	Publisher
Paul Beatty	The Sellout	Novel	US	Oneworld Publications
Deborah Levy	Hot Milk	Novel	UK	Hamish Hamilton
Graeme Macrae Burnet	His Bloody Project	Novel	UK	Contraband
Ottessa Moshfegh	Eileen	Novel	US	Jonathan Cape
David Szalay	All That Man Is	Novel	UK	Jonathan Cape
Madeleine Thien	Do Not Say We Have Nothing	Novel	Canada	Granta Books

Longlist

Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country	Publisher
Paul Beatty	The Sellout	Novel	US	Oneworld Publications
Deborah Levy	Hot Milk	Novel	UK	Hamish Hamilton
Graeme Macrae Burnet	His Bloody Project	Novel	UK	Contraband
Ottessa Moshfegh	Eileen	Novel	US	Jonathan Cape
David Szalay	All That Man Is	Novel	UK	Jonathan Cape
Madeleine Thien	Do Not Say We Have Nothing	Novel	Canada	Granta Books
J. M. Coetzee	The Schooldays of Jesus	Novel	South Africa-Australia	Harvill Secker
A. L. Kennedy	Serious Sweet	Novel	UK	Jonathan Cape
Elizabeth Strout	My Name Is Lucy Barton	Novel	US	Viking
Ian McGuire	The North Water	Novel	UK	Scribner UK
David Means	Hystopia	Novel	US	Faber & Faber
Wyl Menmuir	The Many	Novel	Uk	Salt
Virginia Reeves	Work Like Any Other	Novel	UK	Scribner UK

References

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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)

2016 Man Booker Prize

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