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The 2006 Man Booker Prize was awarded at a ceremony on 10 October 2006. The prize was awarded to Kiran Desai for The Inheritance of Loss.

Judges

Shortlist

Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country	Publisher
Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss	Novel	India	Hamish Hamilton
Kate Grenville	The Secret River	Novel	Australia	Canongate
M. J. Hyland	Carry Me Down	Novel	Australia, UK	Canongate
Hisham Matar	In the Country of Men	Novel	UK	Viking
Edward St Aubyn	Mother's Milk	Novel	UK	Picador
Sarah Waters	The Night Watch	Novel	UK	Virago

Longlist

Author	Title	Genre(s)	Country	Publisher
Peter Carey	Theft: A Love Story	Novel	Australia	Faber & Faber
Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss	Novel	India	Hamish Hamilton
Robert Edric	Gathering the Water	Novel	UK	Black Swan
Nadine Gordimer	Get a Life	Novel	South Africa	Bloomsbury
Kate Grenville	The Secret River	Novel	Australia	Canongate
M. J. Hyland	Carry Me Down	Novel	Australia, UK	Canongate
Howard Jacobson	Kalooki Nights	Novel	UK	Jonathan Cape
James Lasdun	Seven Lies	Novel	UK	Jonathan Cape
Mary Lawson	The Other Side of the Bridge	Novel	Canada	Chatto & Windus
Hisham Matar	In the Country of Men	Novel	UK	Viking
Jon McGregor	So Many Ways to Begin	Novel	UK	Bloomsbury
Claire Messud	The Emperor's Children	Novel	Canada	Picador
David Mitchell	Black Swan Green	Novel	UK	Sceptre
Naeem Murr	The Perfect Man	Novel	UK	Penguin
Andrew O'Hagan	Be Near Me	Novel	UK	Faber & Faber
James Robertson	The Testament of Gideon Mack	Novel	UK	Hamish Hamilton
Edward St Aubyn	Mother's Milk	Novel	UK	Picador
Barry Unsworth	The Ruby in Her Navel	Novel	UK	Hamish Hamilton
Sarah Waters	The Night Watch	Novel	UK	Virago

Sources

2006 Man Booker Prize

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)

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