prize winners

Booker Prize winners last 10 years

2007: "The Gathering" Anne Enright
2006: "The Inheritance of Loss" Kiran Desai
2005: The Sea John Banville

2004: The Line of Beauty Alan Holinghurst
2003: Vernon God Little DBC Pierre
2002: Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
2001: True History Of The Kelly Gang, by Peter Carey
2000: The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood
1999: Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee
1998: Amsterdam, by Ian McEwan
1997: The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy

Winners of the Guardian Prize

1997 Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

1998 Jackie Kay, Trumpet

1999 Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed

with Our Families

2000 Zadie Smith, White Teeth

2001 Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan, or the Smartest Kid on Earth

2002 Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

2003 Robert MacFarlane, Mountains of the Mind

2004 Armand Marie Leroi: Mutants

2005 Alexander Masters: Stuart

Nobel prize for Literature

2006: Doris Lessing (Zimbabwe)
2006: Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
2005: Harold Pinter (Britain)
2004: Elfriede Jelinek (Austria)
2003 : JOHN COETZEE (South Africa)
2002 : IMRE KERTESZ (Hungary)
2001 : VIDIADHAR SURAJPRASAD NAIPAUL (India)
2000 : GAO XINGJIAN (China)
1999 : GUNTHER GRASS (Germany)
1998 : JOSE SARAMAGO (Portugal)
1997 : DARIO FO (Italy)
1996 : WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA (Poland)

Pulitzer Prize

Cormac McCarthy: "The Road" (2007)
Geraldine Brooks: "March" (2006)
Marilynne Robinson: Gilead" (2005)
Edward Jones "The Known World" (2004)

(the rest wouldn't copy in the right way: you'll have to look them up yourself.)

Winners of the Whitbread/Costa prize

Novel · 1997: Jim Crace Being Dead · 1998: Barbara Trapido The Travelling Hornplayer · 1999: Rose Tremain Music and Silence · 2000: Matthew Kneale English Passengers · 2001: Patrick Neate Twelve Bar Blues · 2002: Michael Frayn Spies · 2003: Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time · 2004: Andrea Levy: Small Island · 2005: Ali Smith: The Accidental

Poetry · 1997 Ted Hughes Tales from Ovid · 1998 Ted Hughes Birthday Letters · 1999 Seamus Heaney Beowulf · 2000 John Burnside The Asylum Dance · 2001 Selima Hill Bunny · 2002 Paul Farley The Ice Age · 2003 Don Paterson Landing Light · 2004 Michael-Symmons Roberts: Corpus · 2005 Christopher Logue: Cold Calls