Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall won the Man Booker Prize today. The Daily Beast looks back at the past decade of honorees, from Yann Martel’s Life of Pi to Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger.
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2010: The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
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1970: Troubles by J.G. Farrell
2009: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2008: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
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2007: The Gathering by Anne Enright
2006: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
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2005: The Sea by John Banville
2004: The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
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2003: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
2002: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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2001: True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey