Booker facts

As of (2003):

Over the first 35 years there were a total of 201 novels from 135 authors on the shortlists.

Of the 97 novelists nominated once, there were 13 winners and three joint winners.

Of the 19 novelists nominated twice, there were seven winners and one two-time winner (J. M. Coetzee).

Of the 10 novelists nominated three times, there were four winners, one joint winner and one two-time winner (Peter Carey).

Of the six four-time nominees, all but William Trevor have won once. The other four-time nominees are Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Thomas Keneally and Penelope Fitzgerald.

There have only been two five-time nominees, Margaret Atwood (first nominated in 1986 and won in 2000) and Beryl Bainbridge (nominated twice in the 1970s and three times in the 1990s, but she has never won).

There has been only one six-time nominee, Iris Murdoch, who won on her fourth nomination in 1978 and was nominated twice more in the 1980s.