Categories: 1954 births | Booker Prize winners | English novelists | English poets | Gay writers | Living people | Stonewall Book Award winners | People from Stroud | People from Gloucestershire The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known as the Booker Prize, is one of the worlds most prestigious literary prizes, awarded each year for the best original full-length novel written in the English language by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or the Republic of Ireland. ... The following is a list of winners and shortlisted authors of the Booker Prize for Fiction. ... Percy Howard Newby (June 25, 1918 - September 6, 1997) was an English novelist and broadcasting administrator. ... Bernice Rubens (July 26, 1928 - October 13, 2004) was a Welsh novelist and screenwriter. ... V.S.Naipauls 2005 book Literary Occasions Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, T.C. (born August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago), better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a Trinidadian-born British novelist of Hindu Bhumihar Brahmin heritage from Gorakhpur in Eastern U.P. and Indo-Trinidadian ethnicity. ... John Peter Berger (born November 5, 1926) is an art critic, novelist, painter, and author. ... James Gordon Farrell (23 January 1935— 11 August or 12 August 1979) more usually known as J.G. Farrell was an Irish and British writer of historical novels. ... Nadine Gordimer (born 20 November 1923) is a South African novelist and writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in literature and 1974 Booker Prize. ... Stanley Middleton (born August 1, 1919) is a British novelist. ... Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (born May 7, 1927) is a Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer, and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. ... David Malcolm Storey (born 13 July 1933) is an English playwright, screenwriter and award winning novelist. ... Paul Mark Scott (25 March 1920 – 1 March 1978) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his monumental tetralogy the Raj Quartet. ... Dame Iris Murdoch Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBE (July 15, 1919 – February 8, 1999) was an Irish born British writer and philosopher, best known for her novels, which combine rich characterization and compelling plotlines, usually involving ethical or sexual themes. ... Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 - 28 April 2000) was an English poet, novelist and biographer. ... Sir William Gerald Golding (September 19, 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1983), best known for his work Lord of the Flies. ... Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie, on June 19, 1947, in Bombay, India) is a British-Indian essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. ... Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally (born October 7, 1935) also Tom Keneally, is an Australian novelist. ... John Maxwell Coetzee John Maxwell Coetzee (IPA pronunciation: ; born February 9, 1940), often called J.M. Coetzee, is a South Africa-born Australian author and academic. ... Anita Brookner (born July 16, 1928) is an English novelist and art historian born in London. ... Keri Hulme is a New Zealand writer, best known for her debut (and to this point, only) novel, The bone people. ... Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. ... Penelope Lively (born March 17, 1933) is a prolific, popular and critically acclaimed author of fiction for both children and adults. ... Peter Philip Carey (born May 7, 1943) is an Australian novelist. ... Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ Kazuo Ishiguro, originally 石黒一雄 Ishiguro Kazuo, born November 8, 1954) is a British author of Japanese origin. ... Dame Antonia Susan Byatt , DBE, (born August 24, 1936, Sheffield, England) has been hailed by some as one of the great postmodern novelists in Britain. ... Ben Okri (born March 15, 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist. ... Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC (born 12 September 1943) is a Canadian/Sri Lankan novelist and poet perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film, The English Patient. ... Barry Unsworth (born 1930) is a British novelist who is known for novels with historical themes. ... Roddy Doyle (born May 1958 in Dublin) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. ... James Kelman (born in Glasgow on June 9, 1946) is an influential writer of novels, short stories and plays. ... Pat Barker (born May 8, 1943) is an English writer and historian. ... Graham Colin Swift (born May 4, 1949) is a well-known British author. ... Suzanna Arundhati Roy[1] (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, writer and activist. ... Ian McEwan CBE, (born June 21, 1948), is a British novelist (sometimes nicknamed Ian Macabre because of the nature of his early work). ... John Maxwell Coetzee John Maxwell Coetzee (IPA pronunciation: ; born February 9, 1940), often called J.M. Coetzee, is a South Africa-born Australian author and academic. ... Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian writer. ... Peter Philip Carey (born May 7, 1943) is an Australian novelist. ... Yann Martel Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author. ... DBC Pierre (born 1961 in Australia) is a writer. ... John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist and journalist. ... Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) [1] is a South Asian American author. ...