Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

The Exclusive Books Boeke Prize is a book prize awarded in South Africa, loosely modelled on the United Kingdom's Man Booker Prize, and sponsored by Exclusive Books. Although boeke is the plural of "book" in Afrikaans, the Boeke Prize has only been awarded to novels written in English.

Launched in 1995, the award has been made mostly to first novels or works: 12 of the first 16 winners were debut works. The books are judged by a panel of book critics (40 in 2008).

Since being published, eleven of the awarded books have had a film adaptation released, with two more existing in various stages of adaptation or production.

Award winners

Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt

Year	Title	Author
1995	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	John Berendt
1996	Behind the Scenes at the Museum	Kate Atkinson
1997	Angela's Ashes	Frank McCourt
1998	Cold Mountain	Charles Frazier
1999	The Reader	Bernhard Schlink
2000	The Poisonwood Bible	Barbara Kingsolver
2001	Eddie's Bastard	William Kowalski
2002	Atonement	Ian McEwan
2003	Life of Pi	Yann Martel
2004	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Mark Haddon
	The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini
2005	The Time-Traveler's Wife	Audrey Niffenegger
2006	Q & A	Vikas Swarup
2007	The Book Thief	Markus Zusak
2008	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Stieg Larsson
2009	The Help	Kathryn Stockett
2010	One Day	David Nicholls
2011	When God Was a Rabbit	Sarah Winman

See also

• Amstel Playwright of the Year Award
• M-Net Literary Awards
• Exclusive Books