Booker Prize Winners Trivia Word Search

This author shared the 1974 prize for 'Holiday,' a quiet novel about a man's seaside retreat after his marriage fails.

This author's 1984 winner 'Hotel du Lac' follows a romance novelist recovering from scandal at a Swiss hotel.

This author's 2020 winner 'Shuggie Bain' follows a boy caring for his alcoholic mother in 1980s Glasgow.

This Northern Irish author's 2018 winner 'Milkman' follows an unnamed young woman stalked during the Troubles.

This American author's 2016 winner 'The Sellout' satirizes a man who reinstates segregation in his LA neighborhood.

This author's 2009 winner 'Wolf Hall' reimagines the rise of Thomas Cromwell in Henry VIII's court.

This author's 1972 winner, simply titled 'G.,' follows a womanizing protagonist across pre-WWI Europe.

This author's 1990 winner 'Possession' interweaves a modern literary mystery with a Victorian poets' secret romance.

This author's 1982 winner 'Schindler's Ark' later inspired the film 'Schindler's List.'

This Jamaican author's 2015 winner revolves around a real 1976 assassination attempt on a reggae star.

Writing under a pen name, this author's 2003 winner 'Vernon God Little' satirizes American media after a school shooting.

This author's 1971 winner 'In a Free State' explores displacement and colonialism through linked stories.

This Irish author's 2005 winner 'The Sea' follows a grieving widower revisiting childhood memories by the coast.

This author's 1992 co-winner 'The English Patient' follows a burned, amnesiac man in an Italian villa at war's end.

This author's 1969 novel 'Something to Answer For' won the very first year of this literary prize.

This Canadian author's 2000 winner 'The Blind Assassin' nests a pulp sci-fi tale inside a family saga of betrayal.

This Nigerian author's 1991 winner 'The Famished Road' follows a spirit-child navigating human and supernatural worlds.

This author's 1998 winner 'Amsterdam' follows two old friends whose pact turns darkly ironic.

This author's 2010 winner 'The Finkler Question' is a comic novel exploring Jewish identity and grief.

This Irish author's 1993 winner 'Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha' is narrated by a mischievous ten-year-old Dublin boy.

This author's debut novel won in 2008, narrated by an ambitious Indian driver-turned-entrepreneur called 'The White Tiger.'

This author's 1992 co-winner 'Sacred Hunger' follows the doomed crew of an 18th-century slave ship.

This author's 1987 winner 'Moon Tiger' is narrated by a dying historian recalling her wartime love affair.

This author's 1989 winner 'The Remains of the Day' is narrated by an English butler reflecting on a lifetime of service.

This author's 1977 winner 'Staying On' revisits a British couple who stayed in India after independence.

This author's 1980 winner 'Rites of Passage' is a claustrophobic sea voyage told through a young gentleman's journal.

This author's 1975 winner 'Heat and Dust' weaves together two women's lives in India decades apart.

This author's 2024 winner 'Orbital' takes place over a single day aboard the International Space Station.

This author's 1978 winner 'The Sea, the Sea' follows a retired theater director obsessed with a lost love.

This South African author shared the 1974 prize for 'The Conservationist,' about a wealthy industrialist's crumbling world.

This New Zealand author's 1985 winner 'The Bone People' centers on three isolated characters bound by violence and love.

This author's 1976 winner 'Saville' traces a Yorkshire miner's son through class conflict and ambition.

This author's 2011 winner 'The Sense of an Ending' follows a retired man reassessing a friend's suicide decades later.

This author's 2002 winner 'Life of Pi' follows a boy adrift at sea with a Bengal tiger.

This author's 1995 winner 'The Ghost Road' closes a trilogy about soldiers and a psychiatrist in World War I.

This author's 2006 winner 'The Inheritance of Loss' follows a retired judge and his granddaughter in the Himalayas.

This Irish author's 2007 winner 'The Gathering' follows a woman confronting family secrets after her brother's death.

This author's 1981 winner 'Midnight's Children' follows a boy born at the exact moment of India's independence.

This Australian author's 1988 winner 'Oscar and Lucinda' follows an unlikely couple transporting a glass church.

This Scottish author's controversial 1994 winner follows a man who wakes up blind after a police beating.

This Indian author's 1997 winner 'The God of Small Things' follows fraternal twins shaped by tragedy and taboo.

This South African author's 2021 winner 'The Promise' follows a white family's broken vow across decades of change.

This author's 1986 winner 'The Old Devils' follows a group of aging, hard-drinking friends in Wales.

This author's 2019 co-winner 'Girl, Woman, Other' follows twelve interconnected characters across Black British life.

This American author's 2017 winner 'Lincoln in the Bardo' imagines ghosts surrounding a grieving president's dead son.

This author's 2025 winner 'Flesh' follows a Hungarian immigrant's life from adolescence into adulthood.

This South African author's 1983 winner 'Life & Times of Michael K' follows a gardener fleeing a civil war.

This author's 1996 winner 'Last Orders' follows four friends carrying an old comrade's ashes to the sea.