LITERATURE
Awards
Authors with the Most Booker Prize Award Wins
This list features the authors that have been awarded the most Booker Prizes for Writing.
RANK | AUTHOR | AWARD WINS | WINNING BOOK |
1 | J.M. Coetzee | 2 | Life & Times of Michael K (1983) Disgrace (1999) |
2 | Peter Carey | 2 | Oscar and Lucinda (1988) True History of the Kelly Gang (2001) |
3 | Hilary Mantel | 2 | Wolf Hall (2009) Bring Up the Bodies (2012) |
4 | Margaret Atwood | 2 | The Blind Assassin (2000)The Testaments (2019) |
5 | P. H. Newby | 1 | Something to Answer For (1969) |
6 | Bernice Rubens | 1 | The Elected Member (1970) |
7 | V. S. Naipul | 1 | In a Free State (1971) |
8 | John Berger | 1 | G. (1972) |
9 | J. G. Farrell | 1 | The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) |
10 | Nadine Gordimer | 1 | The Conservationist (1974) |
11 | Stanley Middleton | 1 | Holiday (1974) |
12 | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | 1 | Heat and Dust (1975) |
13 | David Storey | 1 | Saville (1976) |
14 | Paul Scott | 1 | Staying On (1977) |
15 | Iris Murdoch | 1 | The Sea, the Sea (1978) |
16 | Penelope Fitzgerald | 1 | Offshore (1979) |
17 | William Golding | 1 | Rites of Passage (1980) |
18 | Salman Rushdie | 1 | Midnight’s Children (1981) |
19 | Thomas Keneally | 1 | Schindler’s Ark (1982) |
20 | Anita Brookner | 1 | Hotel du Lac (1984) |
21 | Keri Hulme | 1 | The Bone People (1985) |
22 | Kingsley Amis | 1 | The Old Devils (1986) |
23 | Penelope Lively | 1 | Moon Tiger (1987) |
24 | Kazuo Ishiguro | 1 | The Remains of the Day (1989) |
25 | A. S. Byatt | 1 | Possession: A Romance (1990) |
26 | Ben Okri | 1 | The Famished Road (1991) |
27 | Michael Ondaatje | 1 | The English Patient (1992) |
28 | Barry Unsworth | 1 | Sacred Hunger (1992) |
29 | Roddy Doyle | 1 | Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993) |
30 | James Kelman | 1 | How Late It Was, How Late (1994) |
31 | Pat Barker | 1 | The Ghost Road (1995) |
32 | Graham Swift | 1 | Last Orders (1996) |
33 | Arundhati Roy | 1 | The God of Small Things (1997) |
34 | Ian McEwan | 1 | Amsterdam (1998) |
35 | Yann Martel | 1 | Life of Pi (2002) |
36 | DBC Pierre | 1 | Vernon God Little (2003) |
37 | Alan Hollinghurst | 1 | The Line of Beauty (2004) |
38 | John Banville | 1 | The Sea (2005) |
39 | Kiran Desai | 1 | The Inheritance of Loss (2006) |
40 | Anne Enright | 1 | The Gathering (2007) |
41 | Aravind Adiga | 1 | The White Tiger (2008) |
42 | Howard Jacobsen | 1 | The Finkler Question (2010) |
43 | Julian Barnes | 1 | The Sense of an Ending (2011) |
44 | Eleanor Catton | 1 | The Luminaries (2013) |
45 | Richard Flanagan | 1 | The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2014) |
46 | Marlon James | 1 | A Brief History of Seven Killings (2015) |
47 | Paul Beatty | 1 | The Sellout (2016) |
48 | George Saunders | 1 | Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) |
49 | Anna Burns | 1 | Milkman (2018) |
50 | Bernardine Evaristo | 1 | Girl, Woman, Other (2019) |
51 | Douglas Stuart | 1 | Snuggie Bain (2020) |
52 | Damon Galgut | 1 | The Promise (2021) |
53 | Shehan Karunatilaka | 1 | The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (2022) |
54 | Paul Lynch | 1 | Prophet Song (2023) |
55 | Samantha Harvey | 1 | Orbital (2024) |
56 | David Szalay | 1 | Flesh (2025) |
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