Booker Prize Winners that Proved the Critics Wrong | The Booker Prize

Watch 5 Booker Prize winners who proved their biggest critics wrong, including Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, A. S. Byatt and Keri Hulme.

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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.

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[nealgellaco]

Atwood’s The Blind Assassin is far from “excruciating” — rather, what was excruciating, was to hear that “review”

[ReadingMartin]

I love a harsh review. Nothing like an annoyed nerd.

[sanggangte]

Jacobson seemed so pompous and patronising in his assessment of Ishiguro's work. And to think his own Booker Prize winning work is one of the most commercially panned books out there. Serves him right.

[booksaremysociallife]

This is why when I critique a book, I try to be respectful and non-insulting about it 😅

[lexicon]

Jacobson's opinion of Remains of the Day has aged horribly

[MikeFuller-okok]

Will Self read an adult intelligence level novel in 1hour 53minutes! WOW!!

It took me about 3 days to read an abridged children's version of 'Black Beauty' by Anna Sewell.

[Burppo]

Eric Griffiths needed to simmer down a little, the man was wired

[veracious]

Well what a fantastic collision, a Booker Winning novelist criticised another Booker Winning novelist 😃 although the gap between their moments of triumphs were two decades 😃 Ishiguro 1989, Jacobson 2010

[gandgpolaroid]

Poorly written "The remains of the days"? This guy is out of his mind. Not only he won the Booker price, but even the Nobel.

[bugsbunnywearingasmoking]

Actually I think time and serious criticism both proves Booker Prize wrong

[heberribeiro]

damn, it used to be such much like the oscars 😍

[jonharrison]

Will Self was right about Amsterdam, however, which remains one of the most panned winners.

John McGahern should have beaten Possession too.

[thecinematicmind]

Howard Jacobson really got one infamous hot take.