Exclusive Books Boeke Prize
# Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

The Exclusive Books Boeke Prize is a book prize which was awarded in South Africa from 1995 to 2012.

## Award

The award was loosely modelled on the United Kingdom's Booker Prize, and sponsored by Exclusive Books. Although boeke is an Afrikaans word, the plural form of the word for "book", the Boeke Prize has only been awarded to novels written in English.

Launched in 1995, the award was made mostly to first novels or works: 12 of the first 19 winners were debut works. The books were judged by a panel of book critics (40 in 2008).

Ten of the books to receive the award have had a film adaptation released.

## Winners

### Judges' Award

| 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 |
| 2004 | 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 |
| 2012 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn |

### Exclusive Books Fanatics choice

| Year | Title | |
| - | - | - |
| 2010 | The Postmistress | Sarah Blake |
| 2011 | Thirteen Hours | Deon Meyer |
| 2012 | The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry | Rachel Joyce |
