Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Man Booker Prize 2010 / All the winners, and the 2010 shortlist

 



Man Booker Prize 2010: All the winners, and the 2010 shortlist

The Man Booker Prize 2010 winner, Howard Jacobson, has been announced. But does winning the Booker mean a boost in sales? And which of the previous winners has sold the most? We look at the sales data for every winner since 1969

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Man Booker prize 2010: previous winners as a Wordle. Click image for full Wordle

The Man Booker prize has been won by Howard Jacobson with The Finkler Question.

Last year it was Hilary Mantel, who won the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for her historical novel Wolf Hall, which examines the life of Thomas Cromwell, an advisor to Henry VIII.

But does winning the Booker guarantee an author a boom in sales? Here at the Datablog we've pulled together Nielsen BookScan's sales figures of all 43 winners of the title since its inception in 1969 (the prize was a tie in 1974 and again in 1992).

Nielsen's data runs from 1998 onwards, so sales of older books aren't directly comparable, but the runaway winner of recent years is Life of Pi by Yann Martel, which won in 2002 and has taken over £9m and sold 1.3m copies so far, more than twice as many as Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things in second place.

A look at the spreadsheet also reveals that Jonathan Cape is the publisher to sign to if you want to improve your chances of winning the Booker - seven of the previous winning novels have come from them, closely followed by Faber & Faber with six.


Summary

Man Booker prize winners

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Year
Winning author
Title
Publisher
1969PH NewbySomething To Answer ForFaber & Faber
1970Bernice RubensThe Elected MemberEyre & Spottiswoode
1971VS NaipaulIn a Free StateDeutsch
1972John BergerGWeidenfeld & Nicolson
1973JG FarrellThe Siege of KrishnapurWeidenfeld & Nicolson
1974Stanley MiddletonHolidayHutchinson
1974Nadine GordimerThe ConservationistJonathan Cape
1975Ruth Prawer JhabvalaHeat and DustJohn Murray
1976David StoreySavilleJonathan Cape
1977Paul ScottStaying OnWilliam Heinemann
1978Iris MurdochThe Sea, The SeaChatto & Windus
1979Penelope FitzgeraldOffshoreCollins
1980William GoldingRites of PassageFaber & Faber
1981Salman RushdieMidnight's ChildrenJonathan Cape
1982Thomas KeneallySchindler's ArkHodder & Stoughton
1983JM CoetzeeLife & Times of Michael KSecker & Warburg
1984Anita BrooknerHotel du LacJonathan Cape
1985Keri HulmeThe Bone PeopleHodder & Stoughton
1986Kingsley AmisThe Old DevilsHutchinson
1987Penelope LivelyMoon TigerDeutsch
1988Peter CareyOscar and LucindaFaber & Faber
1989Kazuo IshiguroThe Remains of the DayFaber & Faber
1990AS ByattPossessionChatto & Windus
1991Ben OkriThe Famished RoadJonathan Cape
1992Michael OndaatjeThe English PatientBloomsbury
1992Barry UnsworthSacred HungerHamish Hamilton
1993Roddy DoylePaddy Clarke Ha Ha HaSecker & Warburg
1994James KelmanHow Late It Was, How LateSecker & Warburg
1995Pat BarkerThe Ghost RoadViking
1996Graham SwiftLast OrdersPicador
1997Arundhati RoyThe God of Small ThingsFlamingo
1998Ian McEwanAmsterdamJonathan Cape
1999JM CoetzeeDisgraceSecker & Warburg
2000Margaret AtwoodThe Blind AssassinBloomsbury
2001Peter CareyTrue History of the Kelly GangFaber & Faber
2002Yann MartelLife of PiCanongate
2003DBC PierreVernon God LittleFaber & Faber
2004Alan HollinghurstThe Line of BeautyPicador
2005John BanvilleThe SeaPicador
2006Kiran DesaiThe Inheritance of LossHamish Hamilton
2007Anne EnrightThe GatheringJonathan Cape
2008Aravind AdigaThe White TigerAtlantic
2009Hilary MantelWolf HallFourth Estate
2010Howard JacobsonThe Finkler QuestionBloomsbury














































































































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