The 2015 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded at a ceremony on 13 October 2015. A longlist of thirteen titles was announced on 29 July, narrowed down to a shortlist of six titles on 15 September.
Judging panel
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Michael Wood (Chair)
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Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
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John Burnside
John Burnside (19 March 1955 – 29 May 2024) was a Scottish writer. He was one of four poets (with Ted Hughes, Sean O'Brien and Jason Allen-Paisant) to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for a single book – in th ...
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Sam Leith
Sam Leith (born 1 January 1974) is an English author, journalist and literary editor of ''The Spectator''.
After an education at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, Leith worked at the revived satirical magazine '' Punch'', before moving to the ...
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Frances Osborne
Frances Victoria Osborne (''née'' Howell) (born 1969) is an English author. She has written two biographies and one novel.
Osborne's first biography, ''Lilla's Feast'', tells the story of her great-grandmother's life and was published by Doubl ...
Nominees (shortlist)
Nominees (longlist)
Winner
On 13 October, chair judge Michael Wood announced that Jamaican author
Marlon James had won the 2015
Man Booker Prize
The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, wh ...
for his novel ''
A Brief History of Seven Killings
''A Brief History of Seven Killings'' is the third novel by Jamaican author Marlon James. It was published in 2014 by Riverhead Books. The novel spans several decades and explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in Jamaica in 1976 and ...
''. This is the first time that a Jamaican-born author has won the prize.
See also
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References
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Booker Prizes by year
2015 awards in the United Kingdom