Winners have included William Golding for Rites of Passage and Salman Rushdie.  
This prize started in 1968 is awarded yearly to a full-length English novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or Ireland. Winners have included William Golding for Rites of Passage and Salman Rushdie.  ANWER: Man _Booker Prize_ for Fiction      Michael Ondaatje won the prize in 1992 for this work in which a severely burned man lives out the rest of WWII in an Italian villa with a nurse, a thief, and soldier.
This prize started in 1968 is awarded yearly to a full-length English novel written by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations or Ireland.
{The English Patient}