Booker Prize Winners

The Booker Prize, awarded annually to the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom, is the most important literary prize in the British publishing world and one of the most influential in the English-speaking world. Its winners — from Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children to Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall to Richard Powers's The Overstory — are not always the most commercially successful books of their year, but they consistently define the field of literary ambition. The prize has a particular talent for identifying writers who go on to reshape the literature of their generation.