Winners

• 1969 Percy Howard Newby[?], Something to Answer For
• 1970 Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
• 1971 Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, In a Free State
• 1972 John Berger[?], G
• 1973 James Gordon 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
• 1980 William Golding, Rites of Passage
• 1981 Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
• 1982 Thomas Keneally, Schindler's Ark
• 1983 John Michael Coetzee[?], Life and 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
• 1990 Antonia Susan 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 John Michael Coetzee[?], Disgrace
• 2000 Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
• 2001 Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang
• 2002 Yann Martel: Life of Pi