2007 Man Booker Prize

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The 2007 Man Booker Prize was awarded at a ceremony on 16 October 2007. The prize was awarded to Anne Enright for The Gathering.

Judges

Shortlist

Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country	Publisher
Anne Enright	The Gathering	Novel	Ireland	Jonathan Cape
Nicola Barker	Darkmans	Novel	UK	Fourth Estate
Mohsin Hamid	The Reluctant Fundamentalist	Novel	Pakistan, UK	Hamish Hamilton
Lloyd Jones	Mister Pip	Novel	New Zealand	John Murray
Ian McEwan	On Chesil Beach	Novel	UK	Jonathan Cape
Indra Sinha	Animal's People	Novel	UK	Simon & Schuster

Longlist

Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country	Publisher
Nicola Barker	Darkmans	Novel	UK	Fourth Estate
Peter Ho Davies	The Welsh Girl	Novel	UK	Sceptre
Edward Docx	Self Help	Novel	UK	Picador
Tan Twan Eng	The Gift of Rain	Novel	UK	Myrmidon
Anne Enright	The Gathering	Novel	Ireland	Jonathan Cape
Mohsin Hamid	The Reluctant Fundamentalist	Novel	Pakistan, UK	Hamish Hamilton
Lloyd Jones	Mister Pip	Novel	New Zealand	John Murray
Nikita Lalwani	Gifted	Novel	UK	Penguin
Ian McEwan	On Chesil Beach	Novel	UK	Jonathan Cape
Catherine O'Flynn	What Was Lost	Novel	UK	Tindal Street Press
Michael Redhill	Consolation	Novel	UK	Penguin
Indra Sinha	Animal's People	Novel	UK	Simon & Schuster
A. N. Wilson	Winnie & Wolf	Novel	UK	Penguin

Sources

2007 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)