Most Booker Prize nominations

The most nominations awarded to one person for the Booker Prize are six to Iris Murdoch (Ireland) over 18 years for her books: The Nice and the Good (1969), Bruno's Dream (1970), The Black Prince (1973), The Good Apprentice (1985) and The Book and the Brotherhood (1987). She won in 1978 with The Sea, the Sea.

Three authors have been shortlisted five times:

• Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010, who never won – see Most Booker Prize nominations without winning)

• Margaret Atwood (who won with The Blind Assassin in 2000)

• Ian McEwan (who won with Amsterdam in 1998)

Until 1970, the Booker Prize had been awarded to books published the previous year. From 1971 onwards, it was awarded to books published in the same year as the prize. Thus in 2010 “The Lost Man Booker Prize” was awarded, by public vote, to a novel from 1970.