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The Man Booker Prize:

The 2008 Winner:

The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Aravind Adiga's winning novel The White Tiger is decribed as a ‘compelling, angry and darkly humorous' novel about a man's journey from Indian village life to entrepreneurial success. It was described by one reviewer as an ‘unadorned portrait' of India seen ‘from the bottom of the heap'.

The 2008 Shortlist:

The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
The Clothes on their Backs - Linda Grant
The Northern Clemency - Philip Hensher
A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz

Previous Winners:

2007 The Gathering - Anne Enright

2006 The Inheritance of Loss - Kiran Desai

2005 The Sea - John Banville

2004 The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst

2003 Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre

2002 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

2001 The True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey

2000 The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood

1999 Disgrace - J M Coetzee

1998 Amsterdam - Ian McEwan

1997 The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

1996 Last Orders - Graham Swift

1995 The Ghost Road - Pat Barker

1994 How Late it Was, How Late - James Kelman

1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle

1992 The Prize for this year was split: The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje And Sacred Hunger - Barry Unsworth

1991 The Famished Road - Ben Okri

1990 Possession - A S Byatt

1989 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

1988 Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey

1987 Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively

1986 The Old Devils - Kingsley Amis

1985 The Bone People - Keri Hulme

1984 Hotel du Lac - Anita Brookner

1983 The Life and Times of Michael K - J M Coetzee

1982 Schindler's Ark - Thomas Keneally

1981 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

1980 Rites of Passage - William Golding

1979 Offshore - Penelope Fitzgerald

1978 The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch

1977 Staying On - Paul Scott

1976 Saville - David Storey

1975 Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

1974 The Prize for this year was split: The Conservationist - Nadine Gordimer And Holiday - Stanley Middleton

1973 The Siege of Krishnapur - J G Farrell

1972 G - John Berger

1971 In a Free State - V S Naipaul

1970 The Elected Member - Bernice Rubens

1969 Something to Answer For - P H Newby

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