Booker 2005 Winner

John Banville was named the winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction with The Sea, published by Picador.
Chairperson of the Judges John Sutherland commented, “In an extraordinarily closely contested last round, in which the judges felt the level of the shortlisted novels was as high as it can ever have been, they have agreed to award the Man Booker Prize to John Banville’s The Sea, a masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected. The judges salute all the shortlisted novels.”