Year | Winner | Shorlist | ||||||||||||
2008 | Rawi Hage | The Speed of Light Javier Cercas The Sweet & Simple Kind Yasmine Gooneratne Dreams of Speaking Gail Jones Let it be Morning Sayed Kashua The Attack Yasmina Khadra Winterwood Patrick McCabe The Woman who Waited Andrei Makine | ||||||||||||
2007 | Per Petterson | Arthur and George Julian Barnes A Long Long Way Sebastian Barry Slow Man J.M. Coetzee Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer The Short Day Dying Peter Hobbs No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy Shalimar the Clown Salman Rushdie | ||||||||||||
2006 | Colm Tóibín | Graceland Chris Abani | ||||||||||||
2005 | Edward P. Jones | Gardening at Night Diane Awerbuck The Half Brother Lars Saabye Christensen The Good Doctor Damon Galgut Elle Douglas Glover Phantom Pain Arnon Grunberg The Great Fire Shirley Hazzard Willenbrock Christoph Hein Deafening Frances Itani Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem | ||||||||||||
2004 | This Blinding Absence of Light Tahar Ben Jelloun | The Book of Illusions Paul Auster Any Human Heart Willam Boyd Caramelo Sandra Cisneros Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides The White Family Maggie Gee Balthasar's Odyssey Amin Maalouf Family Matters Rohinton Mistry Earth and Ashes Atiq Rahimi House of Day, House of Night Olga Tokarczuk | ||||||||||||
2003 | Orham Pamuk | The Ash Garden Dennis Bock Bitter Fruit Achmat Dangor The Visit of the Royal Physician Per Olov Enquist The Corrections Jonathan Franzen That They May Face the Rising Sun John McGahern Bel Canto Ann Patchett The Painter of Birds Lidia Jorge | ||||||||||||
2002 | Michel Houellebecq | Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood True History of the Kelly Gang Peter Carey Years With Laura Diaz Carlos Fuentes Madame Antoni Libera Keepers of Truth Michael Collins Last Samurai Helen DeWitt | ||||||||||||
2001 | Alistair MacLeod | The True History of Paradise Margaret Cezair-Thompson The love you promised me Silvia Molina Our Fathers Andrew O'Hagan The Clay Machine Gun Victor Pelevin The Blackwater Lightship Colm Toibin | ||||||||||||
2000 | Nicola Barker | The Hours Michael Cunningham Trumpet Jackie Kay This Side of Brightness Colum McCann Charming Billy Alice McDermott Paradiso Toni Morrison I Married a Communist Philip Roth | ||||||||||||
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