ブッカー賞（Booker Prize）は、1968年に創設されたイギリスの文学賞。世界的に最も権威のある文学賞の一つとして知られ、その年に英語で出版された最も優れた長編小説に贈られる。かつては対象がイギリス連邦などに限られていましたが、現在はアメリカなど世界中の英語作品へと門戸が広げられ、世界中の本好きから熱い視線が注がれている賞となった。本記事では、最新の受賞作品からさかのぼり、2000年代までのブッカー賞作品を一挙紹介！ぜひチェックしてみてはいかがだろうか。
2025年 Flesh/David Szalay
Flesh
Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman – as his only companion. When a clandestine relationship begins between them, his life spirals out of control.
As the years pass, István moves from the army to the circles of London’s elite. His competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth win him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely.
2024年 Orbital/Samantha Harvey
Orbital
A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.
Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction.
The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?
2023年 Prophet Song/Paul Lynch
Prophet Song
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, Larry, a trade unionist.
Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling. Soon, she must decide just how far she is willing to go to keep her family safe.