2011 Man Booker Prize

The 2011 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 18 October 2011.^[1] The longlist of 13 books was announced on 26 July,^[2]^[3] and was narrowed down to a shortlist of six on 6 September 2011.^[4] The Man Booker Prize was awarded to Julian Barnes for The Sense of an Ending.^[1]^[5]

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Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country	Publisher
Julian Barnes	The Sense of an Ending	Novel	UK	Jonathan Cape, Random House
Carol Birch	Jamrach's Menagerie	Novel	UK	Canongate Books
Patrick deWitt	The Sisters Brothers	Novel	Canada	Granta
Esi Edugyan	Half Blood Blues	Novel	Canada	Serpent's Tail
Stephen Kelman	Pigeon English	Novel	UK	Bloomsbury
Andrew Miller	Snowdrops	Novel	UK	Atlantic Books

Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country	Publisher
Julian Barnes	The Sense of an Ending	Novel	UK	Jonathan Cape, Random House
Sebastian Barry	On Canaan's Side	Novel	Ireland	Faber and Faber
Carol Birch	Jamrach's Menagerie	Novel	UK	Canongate Books
Patrick deWitt	The Sisters Brothers	Novel	Canada	Granta
Esi Edugyan	Half Blood Blues	Novel	Canada	Serpent's Tail
Yvvette Edwards	A Cupboard Full of Coats	Novel	UK	Oneworld
Stephen Kelman	Pigeon English	Novel	UK	Bloomsbury
Patrick McGuinness	The Last Hundred Days	Novel	UK	Seren
Alan Hollinghurst	The Stranger's Child	Novel	UK	Picador
Andrew Miller	Snowdrops	Novel	UK	Atlantic Books
Alison Pick	Far to Go	Novel	Canada	Tinder Press
Jane Rogers	The Testament of Jessie Lamb	Novel	UK	Canongate Books
D. J. Taylor	Derby Day	Novel		Chatto & Windus

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) 2025: David Szalay (Flesh)

2011 Man Booker Prize

Nominees (shortlist)

Nominees (longlist)

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