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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_englische_Patient" title="Der englische Patient – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Der englische Patient" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglise_patsient" title="Inglise patsient – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Inglise patsient" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9F_%CE%86%CE%B3%CE%B3%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B8%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%AE%CF%82_(%CE%BC%CF%85%CE%B8%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CF%8C%CF%81%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B1)" title="Ο Άγγλος ασθενής (μυθιστόρημα) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ο Άγγλος ασθενής (μυθιστόρημα)" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_paciente_ingl%C3%A9s_(novela)" title="El paciente inglés (novela) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="El paciente inglés (novela)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C" title="بیمار انگلیسی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="بیمار انگلیسی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a 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For the film, see <a href="/wiki/The_English_Patient_(film)" title="The English Patient (film)">The English Patient (film)</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/The_English_Patient_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="The English Patient (disambiguation)">The English Patient (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title" style="font-size:125%; font-style:italic; padding-bottom:0.2em;">The English Patient <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+English+Patient&rft.author=%5B%5BMichael+Ondaatje%5D%5D&rft.date=September+1992&rft.pub=%5B%5BMcClelland+and+Stewart%5D%5D&rft.place=Canada&rft.pages=320&rft_id=info:oclcnum/26257641"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Englishpatient.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f1/Englishpatient.jpg/220px-Englishpatient.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="307" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f1/Englishpatient.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="267" data-file-height="373" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">First edition cover</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje" title="Michael Ondaatje">Michael Ondaatje</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Cover artist</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cecil_Beaton" title="Cecil Beaton">Cecil Beaton</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Historiographic_metafiction" title="Historiographic metafiction">Historiographic metafiction</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/McClelland_and_Stewart" class="mw-redirect" title="McClelland and Stewart">McClelland and Stewart</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">September 1992</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">Canada</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print (hardback and paperback)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pages</th><td class="infobox-data">320</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7710-6886-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-7710-6886-7">0-7710-6886-7</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)"><abbr title="Online Computer Library Center number">OCLC</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26257641">26257641</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/In_the_Skin_of_a_Lion" title="In the Skin of a Lion">In the Skin of a Lion</a> </i></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The English Patient</b></i> is a 1992 novel by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje" title="Michael Ondaatje">Michael Ondaatje</a>. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the <a href="/wiki/Italian_Campaign_(World_War_II)" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian Campaign (World War II)">Italian Campaign</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>. The four main characters consist of: an unrecognizably burned man — the eponymous patient who is presumed to be English; his <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Army" title="Canadian Army">Canadian Army nurse</a>; a Sikh <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> <a href="/wiki/Sapper" title="Sapper">sapper</a>; and a <a href="/wiki/Canadians" title="Canadians">Canadian</a> self described as a <a href="/wiki/Thief" class="mw-redirect" title="Thief">thief</a>. The story is set during the <a href="/wiki/North_African_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="North African Campaign">North African Campaign</a> and centers on the incremental revelations of the patient's actions prior to his injuries, and the emotional effects of these revelations on the other characters. The story is told through the characters' perspectives and "authors" of books the characters are reading. </p><p>The book is a sequel to the 1987 novel <i><a href="/wiki/In_the_Skin_of_a_Lion" title="In the Skin of a Lion">In the Skin of a Lion</a></i>, which continues the story of characters of his stories of Hana and Caravaggio; as well as revealing the fate of the latter's main character, Patrick Lewis. It won the 1992 <a href="/wiki/Booker_Prize" title="Booker Prize">Booker Prize</a>, the 1992 <a href="/wiki/Governor_General%27s_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor General's Award">Governor General's Award</a> and the 2018 <a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Man_Booker" title="The Golden Man Booker">Golden Man Booker</a>. </p><p>The book was adapted into a <a href="/wiki/The_English_Patient_(film)" title="The English Patient (film)">1996 film</a> with the same title.<sup id="cite_ref-Van_Gelder_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Van_Gelder-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was in early development in August 2021 for a new <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> television series, co-produced by <a href="/wiki/Miramax_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Miramax Television">Miramax Television</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Television_Studios" title="Paramount Television Studios">Paramount Television Studios</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Deadline_Hollywood_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Deadline_Hollywood-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2022, the novel was included on the "<a href="/wiki/Big_Jubilee_Read" title="Big Jubilee Read">Big Jubilee Read</a>" list of 70 books by <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth</a> authors, selected to celebrate the <a href="/wiki/Platinum_Jubilee_of_Elizabeth_II" title="Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II">Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot_synopsis">Plot synopsis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_English_Patient&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Plot synopsis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fiesole,_villa_san_girolamo_vista_da_san_francesco_02.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Fiesole%2C_villa_san_girolamo_vista_da_san_francesco_02.JPG/220px-Fiesole%2C_villa_san_girolamo_vista_da_san_francesco_02.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="96" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Fiesole%2C_villa_san_girolamo_vista_da_san_francesco_02.JPG/330px-Fiesole%2C_villa_san_girolamo_vista_da_san_francesco_02.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Fiesole%2C_villa_san_girolamo_vista_da_san_francesco_02.JPG/440px-Fiesole%2C_villa_san_girolamo_vista_da_san_francesco_02.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3036" data-file-height="1320" /></a><figcaption>Villa San Girolamo in <a href="/wiki/Fiesole" title="Fiesole">Fiesole</a> (Florence)</figcaption></figure> <p>The novel's historical backdrop is the <a href="/wiki/North_African_campaign" title="North African campaign">North African</a> and <a href="/wiki/Italian_campaign_(World_War_II)" title="Italian campaign (World War II)">Italian Campaigns</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>. The story is told out of sequence, moving back and forth between the severely burned "English" patient's memories from before his accident and current events at the bomb-damaged <a href="/wiki/Church_of_San_Girolamo" class="mw-redirect" title="Church of San Girolamo">Villa San Girolamo</a> (in <a href="/wiki/Fiesole" title="Fiesole">Fiesole</a>), an Italian monastery, where he is being cared for by Hana, a troubled young Canadian Army nurse. A few chapters are also devoted to Kip, an Indian Sikh, during his time in England training and working as a <a href="/wiki/Sapper" title="Sapper">sapper</a> on <a href="/wiki/Unexploded_ordnance" title="Unexploded ordnance">unexploded ordnance</a>. </p><p>The English patient's only possession is a well-worn and heavily annotated copy of <a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Histories_(Herodotus)" title="Histories (Herodotus)">The Histories</a></i> that has survived the fiery parachute drop.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOndaatje199316_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOndaatje199316-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hearing the book constantly being read aloud to him brings about detailed recollections of his desert explorations, yet he is unable to recall his own name. Instead, he chooses to believe the assumption by others that he is an Englishman based on the sound of his voice. The patient is in fact <a href="/wiki/Laszlo_de_Almasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Laszlo de Almasy">László de Almásy</a>, a Hungarian Count and desert explorer, one of many members of a British <a href="/wiki/Cartography" title="Cartography">cartography</a> group. </p><p>Caravaggio, an Italian-Canadian in the British foreign intelligence service since the late 1930s, is a friend of Hana and Patrick, her mother's lover. He had remained in North Africa to spy when the German forces gain control and then transfers to Italy. He is eventually caught, interrogated, and tortured, resulting in his thumbs being cut off.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOndaatje199354_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOndaatje199354-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is prematurely released and is standing on the <a href="/wiki/Ponte_Santa_Trinita" title="Ponte Santa Trinita">Ponte Santa Trinita</a> bridge when it is destroyed. He recovers at a hospital for over four months before he accidentally overhears about the patient and Hana. Caravaggio bears physical and psychological scars from his painful war experience. </p><p>During a thunderstorm, Kip and another British soldier arrive at the villa while Hana is playing on the piano. Kip decides to stay at the villa to attempt to clear it of unexploded ordnance. Kip and the English patient become friends due to the latter's extensive knowledge on both Allied and enemy weaponry and a detailed topography of <a href="/wiki/Tuscany" title="Tuscany">Tuscany</a>. At one point, Hana risks her life while Kip is defusing a bomb telling him later that she had hoped both of them had died. Shortly after, Kip and Hana develop feelings for one another and begin a relationship. </p><p>The English patient, sedated by morphine, begins to reveal everything: he fell in love with the Englishwoman Katharine Clifton who, with her husband Geoffrey, accompanied Almásy's <a href="/wiki/Desert_exploration" title="Desert exploration">desert exploration</a> team. Almásy was mesmerised by Katharine's voice as she read Herodotus' tale of <a href="/wiki/Candaules" title="Candaules">Candaules</a> aloud by the campfire.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOndaatje1993233_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOndaatje1993233-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They soon began a very intense affair, but she cut it short, claiming that Geoffrey would go mad if he were to discover them. </p><p>Geoffrey offers to return Almásy to <a href="/wiki/Cairo" title="Cairo">Cairo</a> on his plane since the expedition will break camp with the coming of war. Almásy is unaware that Katharine is aboard the plane as it flies low over him and then crashes. Geoffrey is killed outright. Katharine is injured internally and Almásy leaves her in <a href="/wiki/Cave_of_Swimmers" title="Cave of Swimmers">the Cave of Swimmers</a>. Caravaggio tells Almásy that British Intelligence knew about the affair. Almásy makes a three-day trek to British-controlled <a href="/wiki/El_Tag" title="El Tag">El Taj</a> for help. When he arrives, he is detained as a spy because of his name, despite telling them about Katharine's predicament. He later guides German spies across the desert to Cairo. Almásy returns to the cave where he finds Katherine has died years earlier. He retrieves her body from the Cave and, while flying back, the decrepit plane leaks oil onto him and both of them catch fire. He parachutes from the plane and is found severely burned by the Bedouin. </p><p>Towards the end of the novel, Kip learns through his headset that the US has <a href="/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki" title="Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki">bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki</a> and a situation develops where he nearly shoots the English patient. Hana calms him down and Caravaggio reflects that they would not have dropped that kind of bomb on a white nation. Kip departs from the villa, estranged from his white companions, and returns to India. He marries and has two children though he still thinks of Hana. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characters">Characters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_English_Patient&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Characters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Almásy"><span id="Alm.C3.A1sy"></span>Almásy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_English_Patient&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Almásy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Count Ladislaus de Almásy is the titular character who comes under Hana's care in Italy after being burned unrecognisably in Africa. Although Hungarian by birth, because he has lived without government identification or many verifiable long-term interactions, his accent prompts the authorities around him to perceive an English affiliation and to refer to him as the English Patient. Almásy serves as a blank canvas onto which the other characters project their experience during this time in Italy. For example, Hana treats him tenderly to redeem herself for not being by the side of her father when he was engulfed in flames and died. She provides comfort to the English Patient that she could not provide to her own father. </p><p>The rejection of a nationalistic identity enables Almásy to rationalise his duplicitous actions with his associates. He socialises with, and is a mapmaker for, the British before the war, then uses that information to smuggle German spies across northern Africa. Almásy is portrayed in a sympathetic light, partly because he tells his own story, but also because he always adheres to his own moral code. </p><p>Almásy is also at the centre of one of the novel's love stories. He is involved in an adulterous relationship with Katharine Clifton, which eventually leads to her death and the death of her husband, Geoffrey Clifton. Katharine is the figure who leads Almásy to sensuality. He falls in love with her voice as she reads <a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a>. Sensuality, both sexual and observational, is a major theme in the novel. </p><p>The character is loosely based on <a href="/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Alm%C3%A1sy" title="László Almásy">László Almásy</a>, a well-known desert explorer in 1930s Egypt, who helped the German side in the Second World War. Almásy did not suffer burns or die in Italy, but survived the war and lived until 1951. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hana">Hana</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_English_Patient&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Hana"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hana is a twenty-year-old Canadian Army nurse torn between her youth and her maturity. Being a good nurse, she quickly learns that she cannot become emotionally attached to her patients. She calls them all "buddy,"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOndaatje199351_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOndaatje199351-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and forgets them immediately once they die. Her lover, a Canadian officer, is killed and because of this, Hana comes to believe that she is cursed and that all those around her are doomed to die. </p><p>In contrast, upon hearing of her father's death Hana has an emotional breakdown. She then puts all of her energy into caring for the English Patient. She washes his wounds, reads to him and provides him with morphine. When the hospital is abandoned, Hana refuses to leave, staying with her patient. She sees Almásy as saint-like and falls in love with his pure nature.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOndaatje199345_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOndaatje199345-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to her relationship with Almásy, Hana also forms a strong relationship with Kip during his stay at the villa. </p><p>Hana seems to not be able to acknowledge or even come to terms with her father's death. As she almost sees no reason in returning home and her excuse to stay in the now abandoned hospital is to take proper care of the English patient, due to Almasy not being able to move because of how severe his burns are externally and internally as well. On top of this Hana fails to reply or write back her step-mother, whom she loves and is the only living family she has left. Clara writes to Hana for a year whilst she is in Italy; Hana keeps every letter, but fails to write back even with such woe and guilt filling her heart. </p><p>Hana seems to be putting off her life as a young adult and at times shows her immaturity throughout the novel. In ignoring Caravaggio's advice or suggestions or simply not facing the reality that awaits her back home. She seems as if escaping reality and being completely isolated from the rest of society is better than growing up. Hana escapes reality simply by stalling in taking care of the patient, rearranging her set up inside the defaulting villa, listening to what the Almásy has to say or the stories he tells, and by reading books to him over and over again. </p><p>Hana claims to have changed and grown up mentally throughout being a nurse during the war, as one would expect, but her "growing up" seems to be much more of building up a wall and being stuck in this continuous process of trying to heal an already dead body.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kip">Kip</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_English_Patient&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Kip"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Triumph_3HW_350cc_motorcycle.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Triumph_3HW_350cc_motorcycle.jpg/220px-Triumph_3HW_350cc_motorcycle.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Triumph_3HW_350cc_motorcycle.jpg/330px-Triumph_3HW_350cc_motorcycle.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Triumph_3HW_350cc_motorcycle.jpg/440px-Triumph_3HW_350cc_motorcycle.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2021" data-file-height="1379" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Triumph_Engineering" title="Triumph Engineering">Triumph</a> 3HW 350cc motorcycle used by Kip in the novel</figcaption></figure> <p>Kirpal (Kip) Singh is an Indian Sikh who has volunteered with the British military for sapper bomb disposal training under Lord Suffolk. This act of patriotism is not shared by his <a href="/wiki/Indian_nationalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian nationalist">Indian nationalist</a> brother; the scepticism of his unit's white peers discourages a sense of community for Kip. </p><p>Lord Suffolk, an eccentric English nobleman, has developed techniques to dismantle complicated, unexploded bombs in what is a very dangerous occupation. Kip feels a sense of belonging in a community when he is welcomed into the Suffolk household and regards Lord Suffolk as a father figure. Lord Suffolk and his sapper team are killed while attempting to dismantle a new type of bomb. Their deaths cause Kip's emotional withdrawal to become more pronounced. <a href="/wiki/Charles_Howard,_20th_Earl_of_Suffolk" title="Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk">Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk</a>, was a real person who did dismantle bombs and was killed while attempting to dismantle one. </p><p>Kip is transferred to another unit in Italy where he and his partner hear a piano playing. As they enter the villa, they come across Hana while she is playing on a piano during a thunderstorm. Kip stays on at the villa to clear any remaining unexploded bombs, mines, or other booby-traps. Kip feels a sense of community and confidence when he becomes Hana's lover. Kip sees the interactions of the Westerners at the villa as those of a group that disregards nationality. They get together and celebrate Hana's twenty-first birthday, a symbol of their friendship and Kip's acceptance. However, when he learns of the <a href="/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki" title="Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki">nuclear bombing of Hiroshima</a> Kip is thoroughly shocked. He leaves immediately while Caravaggio reflects that Westerners would never use such a weapon on their own race.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kip goes back to India and never returns, he marries and has two children though he never stops recalling the effect of Hana in his life. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="David_Caravaggio">David Caravaggio</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_English_Patient&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: David Caravaggio"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>David Caravaggio is a Canadian thief whose profession is legitimised by the war, as the <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allies</a> needed crafty people to steal Axis documents. He is a long-time friend of Hana's father and becomes known as "the man with bandaged hands" when he arrives at the villa; the bandages cover his severed thumbs, the result of an interrogation by the Italians in Florence. He recalls that Ranuccio Tommasoni ordered the interrogation tactic. This is a reference to a <a href="/wiki/Caravaggio#Biography" title="Caravaggio">man by the same name who was murdered by the historical Caravaggio</a> in 1606.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The mental and physical outcome of the torture is that Caravaggio has "lost his nerve"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOndaatje199333_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOndaatje199333-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and ability to steal. Hana remembers him as a very human thief. He would always be distracted by the human element while doing a job. For instance, if an advent calendar was on the wrong day, he would fix it. She also has deep feelings of love for Caravaggio. At times, Caravaggio seems to display a romantic love towards Hana, but also at one point wishes she would marry Kip. Caravaggio<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOndaatje1993166_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOndaatje1993166-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Almásy share a morphine addiction. Caravaggio works this to his advantage to confirm his suspicion that Almásy is not English. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Katharine_Clifton">Katharine Clifton</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_English_Patient&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Katharine Clifton"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Katharine is the childhood friend and newly-wed wife of Geoffrey Clifton, whom she marries after their days at Oxford University. The day after their wedding, she and Geoffrey fly to join Almásy's expedition. She entertains the camp in the evening by reading aloud from Almásy's copy of Herodotus' <i>Histories</i>, after which she and Almásy begin an affair. At one point Katharine stabs and punches Almásy repeatedly because she is angry that he doesn't want to change. Geoffrey discovers the affair after she has ended it, and she is wracked with guilt. Geoffrey attempts to kill all three of them by crashing his plane while they are flying. After Geoffrey is killed in the crash, Katharine admits that she always loved Almásy. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Geoffrey_Clifton">Geoffrey Clifton</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_English_Patient&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Geoffrey Clifton"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Geoffrey is Katharine's husband, on a secret mission for the British government to make detailed aerial maps of North Africa; his joining the Almásy expedition is only a ruse. 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It serves as a representation of the characters' war experiences and how they came to gather in the villa. A passage in the novel notes "The desert could not be claimed or owned."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOndaatje1993138_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOndaatje1993138-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Caravaggio had stepped away from the war for a brief time when he drifted into the villa and encountered an old flame, Hana. Kip elects to stay in the villa, a straggler from his unit, to continue searching for explosives. He also finds there is a serene sense of acceptance in the villa and that the people need him. Hana is devoted to her patients, to the very last. Thus, she stays behind in the villa hospital when numerous others abandon it. Almásy himself is forced into the villa, essentially because the desert took him when his plane was shot down.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>A psychoanalytic analysis of "The English Patient" helps us to understand the meaning of Michael Ondaatje's emphasis on his characters' differences and appearances. He may have been thinking about how melting pot civilisations begin by different cultures working together in spite of each other's background. Note how each central character living in the reconstructed villa is almost as opposite of each other in appearance as they could be. Hana was young, healthy, and capable of caring for more than one person at a time, but she mainly attended to the English patient. In contrast to Hana, the English patient was handicapped and on his death bed. But little did Hana know, in the English patient's past, he had worked with the Germans on other desert expeditions way before their paths had crossed. However, his amnesia could not allow him to remember such things at the moment. In other words, Hana was caring for someone who was partly responsible for her village's demise. The moral of this is that Hana, the English patient, Kip and Caravaggio had fewer physical resemblances to each other than they had had of humanistic desires. Thus, Michael Ondaatje may have wanted us to see that what's on the outside does not matter as much as what's on the inside when rebuilding a village, city or country.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The emotional heart of this novel is found at the core of the character's want and need to survive, which in turn is the eternal damnation they find by everything seeming so bleak. Within this, the desert is a large symbol. As the Villa San Girolamo is an abandoned, war ridden place, it is also a place that seems like a cage, with no chance at happiness in sight. The war may be over, but the characters feel trapped in a sense. The desert within the novel is a place of freedom, a place that cannot be claimed or owned by any one person. The desert is everlasting, and can never be wavered. This is unlike the war that these characters had become extremely traumatised from. It is a vast nothingness that will always remain nation-less. A place that these characters can seek out in their minds, when there is nowhere else to turn for hope.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_English_Patient&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The novel won the 1992 <a href="/wiki/Booker_Prize" title="Booker Prize">Booker Prize</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the 1992 <a href="/wiki/1992_Governor_General%27s_Awards" title="1992 Governor General's Awards">Governor General's Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the 2018 <a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Man_Booker" title="The Golden Man Booker">Golden Man Booker</a> award.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Film_adaptation">Film adaptation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_English_Patient&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Film adaptation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The novel was adapted into the <a href="/wiki/The_English_Patient_(film)" title="The English Patient (film)">1996 film</a> with the same title by <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Minghella" title="Anthony Minghella">Anthony Minghella</a>, starring <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Fiennes" title="Ralph Fiennes">Ralph Fiennes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kristin_Scott_Thomas" title="Kristin Scott Thomas">Kristin Scott Thomas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Willem_Dafoe" title="Willem Dafoe">Willem Dafoe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colin_Firth" title="Colin Firth">Colin Firth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Naveen_Andrews" title="Naveen Andrews">Naveen Andrews</a> and <a href="/wiki/Juliette_Binoche" title="Juliette Binoche">Juliette Binoche</a>. The film received <a href="/wiki/69th_Academy_Awards#Awards" title="69th Academy Awards">nine</a> <a href="/wiki/Academy_Awards" title="Academy Awards">Academy Awards</a>—including <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture" title="Academy Award for Best Picture">Best Picture</a> and <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Director#1990s" title="Academy Award for Best Director">Director</a>—at the <a href="/wiki/69th_Academy_Awards" title="69th Academy Awards">69th Academy Awards</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Van_Gelder_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Van_Gelder-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Canceled_television_adaptation">Canceled television adaptation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_English_Patient&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Canceled television adaptation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A television adaptation of the book is planned by the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>. The project will be written by <a href="/wiki/Emily_Ballou" title="Emily Ballou">Emily Ballou</a> and co-producing between <a href="/wiki/Miramax_Television" class="mw-redirect" title="Miramax Television">Miramax Television</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paramount_Television_Studios" title="Paramount Television Studios">Paramount Television Studios</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Deadline_Hollywood_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Deadline_Hollywood-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, in March 2023, it was reported that it was no longer moving forward.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_English_Patient&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Van_Gelder-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Van_Gelder_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Van_Gelder_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVan_Gelder1997" class="citation news cs1">Van Gelder, Lawrence (25 March 1997). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/25/movies/english-patient-dominates-oscars-with-nine-including-best-picture.html">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'English Patient' Dominates Oscars With Nine, Including Best Picture"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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New York: Vintage Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-679-74520-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-679-74520-3"><bdi>0-679-74520-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+English+Patient&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Vintage+Books&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=0-679-74520-3&rft.aulast=Ondaatje&rft.aufirst=Michael&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fenglishpatientno0000onda&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+English+Patient" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li>Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. "Ondaatje's <i>The English Patient</i> and Questions of History". <i>Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing</i>. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2005. 115–132.</li> <li>Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol1/iss4/8/">Michael Ondaatje's 'The English Patient,' 'History,' and the Other"</a>. <i>CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture</i> 1.4 (1999).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_English_Patient&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lh973">Michael Ondaatje discusses <i>The English Patient</i></a> on the BBC</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fjexpeditions.com/resources/bibl/Almasy/AlmasyBooks.htm">The writings of László Almásy</a>, available in English translation.</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style 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McDowell">Franklin D. McDowell</a>, <i>The Champlain Road</i> (1939)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1940s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ringuet" class="mw-redirect" title="Ringuet">Ringuet</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Thirty_Acres" title="Thirty Acres">Thirty Acres</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Sullivan" title="Alan Sullivan">Alan Sullivan</a>, <i>Three Came to Ville Marie</i> (1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G._Herbert_Sallans" title="G. Herbert Sallans">G. Herbert Sallans</a>, <i>Little Man</i> (1942)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Head_Raddall" title="Thomas Head Raddall">Thomas Head Raddall</a>, <i>The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek</i> (1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwethalyn_Graham" title="Gwethalyn Graham">Gwethalyn Graham</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Earth_and_High_Heaven" title="Earth and High Heaven">Earth and High Heaven</a></i> (1944)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_MacLennan" title="Hugh MacLennan">Hugh MacLennan</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Two_Solitudes_(novel)" title="Two Solitudes (novel)">Two Solitudes</a></i> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winifred_Bambrick" title="Winifred Bambrick">Winifred Bambrick</a>, <i>Continental Revue</i> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabrielle_Roy" title="Gabrielle Roy">Gabrielle Roy</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tin_Flute" title="The Tin Flute">The Tin Flute</a></i> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_MacLennan" title="Hugh MacLennan">Hugh MacLennan</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Precipice_(MacLennan_novel)" title="The Precipice (MacLennan novel)">The Precipice</a></i> (1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Child" title="Philip Child">Philip Child</a>, <i>Mr. Ames Against Time</i> (1949)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1950s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Germaine_Gu%C3%A8vremont" title="Germaine Guèvremont">Germaine Guèvremont</a>, <i>The Outlander</i> (1950)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morley_Callaghan" title="Morley Callaghan">Morley Callaghan</a>, <i>The Loved and the Lost</i> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Walker_(author)" title="David Walker (author)">David Walker</a>, <i>The Pillar</i> (1952)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Walker_(author)" title="David Walker (author)">David Walker</a>, <i>Digby</i> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Igor_Gouzenko" title="Igor Gouzenko">Igor Gouzenko</a>, <i>The Fall of a Titan</i> (1954)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Shapiro" title="Lionel Shapiro">Lionel Shapiro</a>, <i>The Sixth of June</i> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adele_Wiseman" title="Adele Wiseman">Adele Wiseman</a>, <i>The Sacrifice</i> (1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabrielle_Roy" title="Gabrielle Roy">Gabrielle Roy</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Street_of_Riches" title="Street of Riches">Street of Riches</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colin_McDougall" title="Colin McDougall">Colin McDougall</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Execution_(novel)" title="Execution (novel)">Execution</a></i> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_MacLennan" title="Hugh MacLennan">Hugh MacLennan</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Watch_That_Ends_the_Night" title="The Watch That Ends the Night">The Watch That Ends the Night</a></i> (1959)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1960s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Moore_(novelist)" title="Brian Moore (novelist)">Brian Moore</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Luck_of_Ginger_Coffey_(novel)" title="The Luck of Ginger Coffey (novel)">The Luck of Ginger Coffey</a></i> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Lowry" title="Malcolm Lowry">Malcolm Lowry</a>, <i>Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place</i> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kildare_Dobbs" title="Kildare Dobbs">Kildare Dobbs</a>, <i>Running to Paradise</i> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Garner" title="Hugh Garner">Hugh Garner</a>, <i>Hugh Garner's Best Stories</i> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_LePan" title="Douglas LePan">Douglas LePan</a>, <i>The Deserter</i> (1964)</li> <li>[no award] (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Laurence" title="Margaret Laurence">Margaret Laurence</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Jest_of_God" title="A Jest of God">A Jest of God</a></i> (1966)</li> <li>[no award] (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Munro" title="Alice Munro">Alice Munro</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Dance_of_the_Happy_Shades" title="Dance of the Happy Shades">Dance of the Happy Shades</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Kroetsch" title="Robert Kroetsch">Robert Kroetsch</a>, <i>The Studhorse Man</i> (1969)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Godfrey" title="Dave Godfrey">Dave Godfrey</a>, <i>The New Ancestors</i> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mordecai_Richler" title="Mordecai Richler">Mordecai Richler</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/St._Urbain%27s_Horseman" title="St. Urbain's Horseman">St. Urbain's Horseman</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robertson_Davies" title="Robertson Davies">Robertson Davies</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Manticore" title="The Manticore">The Manticore</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudy_Wiebe" title="Rudy Wiebe">Rudy Wiebe</a>, <i>The Temptations of Big Bear</i> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Laurence" title="Margaret Laurence">Margaret Laurence</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Diviners" title="The Diviners">The Diviners</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brian_Moore_(novelist)" title="Brian Moore (novelist)">Brian Moore</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Victorian_Collection" title="The Great Victorian Collection">The Great Victorian Collection</a></i> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marian_Engel" title="Marian Engel">Marian Engel</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Bear_(novel)" title="Bear (novel)">Bear</a></i> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timothy_Findley" title="Timothy Findley">Timothy Findley</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wars" title="The Wars">The Wars</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Munro" title="Alice Munro">Alice Munro</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Who_Do_You_Think_You_Are%3F_(book)" title="Who Do You Think You Are? (book)">Who Do You Think You Are?</a></i> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Hodgins" title="Jack Hodgins">Jack Hodgins</a>, <i>The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne</i> (1979)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Bowering" title="George Bowering">George Bowering</a>, <i>Burning Water</i> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mavis_Gallant" title="Mavis Gallant">Mavis Gallant</a>, <i>Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories</i> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Vanderhaeghe" title="Guy Vanderhaeghe">Guy Vanderhaeghe</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Man_Descending" title="Man Descending">Man Descending</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Rooke" title="Leon Rooke">Leon Rooke</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Shakespeare%27s_Dog" title="Shakespeare's Dog">Shakespeare's Dog</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josef_%C5%A0kvoreck%C3%BD" title="Josef Škvorecký">Josef Škvorecký</a>, <i>The Engineer of Human Souls</i> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Atwood" title="Margaret Atwood">Margaret Atwood</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale" title="The Handmaid's Tale">The Handmaid's Tale</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Munro" title="Alice Munro">Alice Munro</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Progress_of_Love" title="The Progress of Love">The Progress of Love</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._T._Kelly" title="M. T. Kelly">M. T. Kelly</a>, <i>A Dream Like Mine</i> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Adams_Richards" title="David Adams Richards">David Adams Richards</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Nights_Below_Station_Street" title="Nights Below Station Street">Nights Below Station Street</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Quarrington" title="Paul Quarrington">Paul Quarrington</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Whale_Music_(novel)" title="Whale Music (novel)">Whale Music</a></i> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nino_Ricci" title="Nino Ricci">Nino Ricci</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Lives_of_the_Saints_(Ricci_novel)" title="Lives of the Saints (Ricci novel)">Lives of the Saints</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rohinton_Mistry" title="Rohinton Mistry">Rohinton Mistry</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Such_a_Long_Journey_(novel)" title="Such a Long Journey (novel)">Such a Long Journey</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje" title="Michael Ondaatje">Michael Ondaatje</a>, <i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The English Patient</a></i> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carol_Shields" title="Carol Shields">Carol Shields</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Stone_Diaries" title="The Stone Diaries">The Stone Diaries</a></i> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudy_Wiebe" title="Rudy Wiebe">Rudy Wiebe</a>, <i>A Discovery of Strangers</i> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greg_Hollingshead" title="Greg Hollingshead">Greg Hollingshead</a>, <i>The Roaring Girl</i> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Vanderhaeghe" title="Guy Vanderhaeghe">Guy Vanderhaeghe</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Englishman%27s_Boy" title="The Englishman's Boy">The Englishman's Boy</a></i> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Urquhart" title="Jane Urquhart">Jane Urquhart</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Underpainter" title="The Underpainter">The Underpainter</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diane_Schoemperlen" title="Diane Schoemperlen">Diane Schoemperlen</a>, <i>Forms of Devotion</i> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matt_Cohen_(writer)" title="Matt Cohen (writer)">Matt Cohen</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_and_After" title="Elizabeth and After">Elizabeth and After</a></i> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje" title="Michael Ondaatje">Michael Ondaatje</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Anil%27s_Ghost" title="Anil's Ghost">Anil's Ghost</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_B._Wright" title="Richard B. Wright">Richard B. Wright</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Clara_Callan" title="Clara Callan">Clara Callan</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gloria_Sawai" title="Gloria Sawai">Gloria Sawai</a>, <i>A Song for Nettie Johnson</i> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Glover_(writer)" title="Douglas Glover (writer)">Douglas Glover</a>, <i>Elle</i> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miriam_Toews" title="Miriam Toews">Miriam Toews</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Complicated_Kindness" title="A Complicated Kindness">A Complicated Kindness</a></i> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Gilmour_(writer)" title="David Gilmour (writer)">David Gilmour</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Perfect_Night_to_Go_to_China" title="A Perfect Night to Go to China">A Perfect Night to Go to China</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Behrens_(writer)" title="Peter Behrens (writer)">Peter Behrens</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Law_of_Dreams" title="The Law of Dreams">The Law of Dreams</a></i> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje" title="Michael Ondaatje">Michael Ondaatje</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Divisadero_(novel)" title="Divisadero (novel)">Divisadero</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nino_Ricci" title="Nino Ricci">Nino Ricci</a>, <i>The Origin of Species</i> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Pullinger" title="Kate Pullinger">Kate Pullinger</a>, <i>The Mistress of Nothing</i> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dianne_Warren" title="Dianne Warren">Dianne Warren</a>, <i>Cool Water</i> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_deWitt" title="Patrick deWitt">Patrick deWitt</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sisters_Brothers" title="The Sisters Brothers">The Sisters Brothers</a></i> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linda_Spalding" title="Linda Spalding">Linda Spalding</a>, <i>The Purchase</i> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Catton" title="Eleanor Catton">Eleanor Catton</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Luminaries" title="The Luminaries">The Luminaries</a></i> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_King_(novelist)" title="Thomas King (novelist)">Thomas King</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Back_of_the_Turtle" title="The Back of the Turtle">The Back of the Turtle</a></i> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Vanderhaeghe" title="Guy Vanderhaeghe">Guy Vanderhaeghe</a>, <i>Daddy Lenin and Other Stories</i> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madeleine_Thien" title="Madeleine Thien">Madeleine Thien</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Do_Not_Say_We_Have_Nothing" title="Do Not Say We Have Nothing">Do Not Say We Have Nothing</a></i> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joel_Thomas_Hynes" title="Joel Thomas Hynes">Joel Thomas Hynes</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/We%27ll_All_Be_Burnt_in_Our_Beds_Some_Night" title="We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night">We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night</a></i> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Henstra" title="Sarah Henstra">Sarah Henstra</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Red_Word" title="The Red Word">The Red Word</a></i> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Thomas" title="Joan Thomas">Joan Thomas</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Five_Wives" title="Five Wives">Five Wives</a></i> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michelle_Good" title="Michelle Good">Michelle Good</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Five_Little_Indians_(novel)" title="Five Little Indians (novel)">Five Little Indians</a></i> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norma_Dunning" title="Norma Dunning">Norma Dunning</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Tainna" title="Tainna">Tainna</a></i> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheila_Heti" title="Sheila Heti">Sheila Heti</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Pure_Colour" title="Pure Colour">Pure Colour</a></i> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anuja_Varghese" title="Anuja Varghese">Anuja Varghese</a>, <i>Chrysalis</i> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jordan_Abel" title="Jordan Abel">Jordan Abel</a>, <i>Empty Spaces</i> (2024)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Recipients_of_the_Booker_Prize" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist 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href="/wiki/The_Best_of_the_Booker" title="The Best of the Booker">The Best of the Booker</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Man_Booker" title="The Golden Man Booker">The Golden Man Booker</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/International_Booker_Prize" title="International Booker Prize">International Booker Prize</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1969–79</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1969: <a href="/wiki/P._H._Newby" title="P. H. Newby">P. H. Newby</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Something_to_Answer_For" title="Something to Answer For">Something to Answer For</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1970: <a href="/wiki/Bernice_Rubens" title="Bernice Rubens">Bernice Rubens</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Elected_Member" title="The Elected Member">The Elected Member</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Lost_Man_Booker_Prize" title="Lost Man Booker Prize">1970 Lost Prize</a>: <a href="/wiki/J._G._Farrell" title="J. G. Farrell">J. G. Farrell</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Troubles_(novel)" title="Troubles (novel)">Troubles</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1971: <a href="/wiki/V._S._Naipaul" title="V. S. Naipaul">V. S. Naipaul</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/In_a_Free_State" title="In a Free State">In a Free State</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1972: <a href="/wiki/John_Berger" title="John Berger">John Berger</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/G._(novel)" title="G. (novel)">G.</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1973: <a href="/wiki/J._G._Farrell" title="J. G. Farrell">J. G. Farrell</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Siege_of_Krishnapur" title="The Siege of Krishnapur">The Siege of Krishnapur</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1974: <a href="/wiki/Nadine_Gordimer" title="Nadine Gordimer">Nadine Gordimer</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Conservationist" title="The Conservationist">The Conservationist</a></i>) and <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Middleton" title="Stanley Middleton">Stanley Middleton</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Holiday_(novel)" title="Holiday (novel)">Holiday</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1975: <a href="/wiki/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala" title="Ruth Prawer Jhabvala">Ruth Prawer Jhabvala</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Heat_and_Dust" title="Heat and Dust">Heat and Dust</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1976: <a href="/wiki/David_Storey" title="David Storey">David Storey</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Saville_(novel)" title="Saville (novel)">Saville</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1977: <a href="/wiki/Paul_Scott_(novelist)" title="Paul Scott (novelist)">Paul Scott</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Staying_On" title="Staying On">Staying On</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1978: <a href="/wiki/Iris_Murdoch" title="Iris Murdoch">Iris Murdoch</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Sea,_the_Sea" title="The Sea, the Sea">The Sea, The Sea</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1979: <a href="/wiki/Penelope_Fitzgerald" title="Penelope Fitzgerald">Penelope Fitzgerald</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Offshore_(novel)" title="Offshore (novel)">Offshore</a></i>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1980: <a href="/wiki/William_Golding" title="William Golding">William Golding</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/To_the_Ends_of_the_Earth#Rites_of_Passage" title="To the Ends of the Earth">Rites of Passage</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1981: <a href="/wiki/Salman_Rushdie" title="Salman Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Midnight%27s_Children" title="Midnight's Children">Midnight's Children</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1982: <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Keneally" title="Thomas Keneally">Thomas Keneally</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Schindler%27s_Ark" title="Schindler's Ark">Schindler's Ark</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1983: <a href="/wiki/J._M._Coetzee" title="J. M. Coetzee">J. M. Coetzee</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Life_%26_Times_of_Michael_K" title="Life & Times of Michael K">Life & Times of Michael K</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1984: <a href="/wiki/Anita_Brookner" title="Anita Brookner">Anita Brookner</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Hotel_du_Lac" title="Hotel du Lac">Hotel du Lac</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1985: <a href="/wiki/Keri_Hulme" title="Keri Hulme">Keri Hulme</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Bone_People" title="The Bone People">The Bone People</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1986: <a href="/wiki/Kingsley_Amis" title="Kingsley Amis">Kingsley Amis</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Old_Devils" title="The Old Devils">The Old Devils</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1987: <a href="/wiki/Penelope_Lively" title="Penelope Lively">Penelope Lively</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Moon_Tiger" title="Moon Tiger">Moon Tiger</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1988: <a href="/wiki/Peter_Carey_(novelist)" title="Peter Carey (novelist)">Peter Carey</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Oscar_and_Lucinda" title="Oscar and Lucinda">Oscar and Lucinda</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1989: <a href="/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro" title="Kazuo Ishiguro">Kazuo Ishiguro</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Remains_of_the_Day" title="The Remains of the Day">The Remains of the Day</a></i>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1990: <a href="/wiki/A._S._Byatt" title="A. S. Byatt">A. S. Byatt</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Possession_(Byatt_novel)" title="Possession (Byatt novel)">Possession</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1991: <a href="/wiki/Ben_Okri" title="Ben Okri">Ben Okri</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Famished_Road" title="The Famished Road">The Famished Road</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1992: <a href="/wiki/Michael_Ondaatje" title="Michael Ondaatje">Michael Ondaatje</a> (<i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">The English Patient</a></i>) and <a href="/wiki/Barry_Unsworth" title="Barry Unsworth">Barry Unsworth</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Sacred_Hunger" title="Sacred Hunger">Sacred Hunger</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1993: <a href="/wiki/Roddy_Doyle" title="Roddy Doyle">Roddy Doyle</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Paddy_Clarke_Ha_Ha_Ha" title="Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha">Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1994: <a href="/wiki/James_Kelman" title="James Kelman">James Kelman</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/How_Late_It_Was,_How_Late" title="How Late It Was, How Late">How Late It Was, How Late</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1995: <a href="/wiki/Pat_Barker" title="Pat Barker">Pat Barker</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Ghost_Road" title="The Ghost Road">The Ghost Road</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1996: <a href="/wiki/Graham_Swift" title="Graham Swift">Graham Swift</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Last_Orders" title="Last Orders">Last Orders</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1997: <a href="/wiki/Arundhati_Roy" title="Arundhati Roy">Arundhati Roy</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_God_of_Small_Things" title="The God of Small Things">The God of Small Things</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1998: <a href="/wiki/Ian_McEwan" title="Ian McEwan">Ian McEwan</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Amsterdam_(novel)" title="Amsterdam (novel)">Amsterdam</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1999: <a href="/wiki/J._M._Coetzee" title="J. M. Coetzee">J. M. Coetzee</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Disgrace" title="Disgrace">Disgrace</a></i>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">2000: <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Atwood" title="Margaret Atwood">Margaret Atwood</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Blind_Assassin" title="The Blind Assassin">The Blind Assassin</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2001: <a href="/wiki/Peter_Carey_(novelist)" title="Peter Carey (novelist)">Peter Carey</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/True_History_of_the_Kelly_Gang" title="True History of the Kelly Gang">True History of the Kelly Gang</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2002: <a href="/wiki/Yann_Martel" title="Yann Martel">Yann Martel</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Life_of_Pi" title="Life of Pi">Life of Pi</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2003: <a href="/wiki/DBC_Pierre" title="DBC Pierre">DBC Pierre</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Vernon_God_Little" title="Vernon God Little">Vernon God Little</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2004: <a href="/wiki/Alan_Hollinghurst" title="Alan Hollinghurst">Alan Hollinghurst</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Line_of_Beauty" title="The Line of Beauty">The Line of Beauty</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2005: <a href="/wiki/John_Banville" title="John Banville">John Banville</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Sea_(novel)" title="The Sea (novel)">The Sea</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2006_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2006 Man Booker Prize">2006</a>: <a href="/wiki/Kiran_Desai" title="Kiran Desai">Kiran Desai</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Inheritance_of_Loss" title="The Inheritance of Loss">The Inheritance of Loss</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2007_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2007 Man Booker Prize">2007</a>: <a href="/wiki/Anne_Enright" title="Anne Enright">Anne Enright</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Gathering_(Enright_novel)" title="The Gathering (Enright novel)">The Gathering</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2008_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2008 Man Booker Prize">2008</a>: <a href="/wiki/Aravind_Adiga" title="Aravind Adiga">Aravind Adiga</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_White_Tiger_(Adiga_novel)" title="The White Tiger (Adiga novel)">The White Tiger</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2009_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2009 Man Booker Prize">2009</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hilary_Mantel" title="Hilary Mantel">Hilary Mantel</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Wolf_Hall" title="Wolf Hall">Wolf Hall</a></i>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2010_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2010 Man Booker Prize">2010</a>: <a href="/wiki/Howard_Jacobson" title="Howard Jacobson">Howard Jacobson</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Finkler_Question" title="The Finkler Question">The Finkler Question</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2011_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2011 Man Booker Prize">2011</a>: <a href="/wiki/Julian_Barnes" title="Julian Barnes">Julian Barnes</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Sense_of_an_Ending" title="The Sense of an Ending">The Sense of an Ending</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2012_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2012 Man Booker Prize">2012</a>: <a href="/wiki/Hilary_Mantel" title="Hilary Mantel">Hilary Mantel</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Bring_Up_the_Bodies" title="Bring Up the Bodies">Bring Up the Bodies</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2013_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2013 Man Booker Prize">2013</a>: <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Catton" title="Eleanor Catton">Eleanor Catton</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Luminaries" title="The Luminaries">The Luminaries</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2014_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2014 Man Booker Prize">2014</a>: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Flanagan" title="Richard Flanagan">Richard Flanagan</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Narrow_Road_to_the_Deep_North_(novel)" title="The Narrow Road to the Deep North (novel)">The Narrow Road to the Deep North</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2015_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2015 Man Booker Prize">2015</a>: <a href="/wiki/Marlon_James_(novelist)" title="Marlon James (novelist)">Marlon James</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Seven_Killings" title="A Brief History of Seven Killings">A Brief History of Seven Killings</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2016_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2016 Man Booker Prize">2016</a>: <a href="/wiki/Paul_Beatty" title="Paul Beatty">Paul Beatty</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Sellout_(novel)" title="The Sellout (novel)">The Sellout</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2017_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2017 Man Booker Prize">2017</a>: <a href="/wiki/George_Saunders" title="George Saunders">George Saunders</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_in_the_Bardo" title="Lincoln in the Bardo">Lincoln in the Bardo</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2018_Man_Booker_Prize" title="2018 Man Booker Prize">2018</a>: <a href="/wiki/Anna_Burns" title="Anna Burns">Anna Burns</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Milkman_(novel)" title="Milkman (novel)">Milkman</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2019_Booker_Prize" title="2019 Booker Prize">2019</a>: <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Atwood" title="Margaret Atwood">Margaret Atwood</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Testaments" title="The Testaments">The Testaments</a></i>) and <a href="/wiki/Bernardine_Evaristo" title="Bernardine Evaristo">Bernardine Evaristo</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Girl,_Woman,_Other" title="Girl, Woman, Other">Girl, Woman, Other</a></i>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2020_Booker_Prize" title="2020 Booker Prize">2020</a>: <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Stuart_(writer)" title="Douglas Stuart (writer)">Douglas Stuart</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Shuggie_Bain" title="Shuggie Bain">Shuggie Bain</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2021_Booker_Prize" title="2021 Booker Prize">2021</a>: <a href="/wiki/Damon_Galgut" title="Damon Galgut">Damon Galgut</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Promise_(Galgut_novel)" title="The Promise (Galgut novel)">The Promise</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2022_Booker_Prize" title="2022 Booker Prize">2022</a>: <a href="/wiki/Shehan_Karunatilaka" title="Shehan Karunatilaka">Shehan Karunatilaka</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Seven_Moons_of_Maali_Almeida" title="The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida">The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2023_Booker_Prize" title="2023 Booker Prize">2023</a>: <a href="/wiki/Paul_Lynch_(writer)" title="Paul Lynch (writer)">Paul Lynch</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Prophet_Song" title="Prophet Song">Prophet Song</a></i>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/2024_Booker_Prize" title="2024 Booker Prize">2024</a>: <a href="/wiki/Samantha_Harvey_(author)" class="mw-redirect" title="Samantha Harvey (author)">Samantha Harvey</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Orbital_(novel)" title="Orbital (novel)">Orbital</a></i>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox authority-control" 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