| Year | Winner | Country | Novel |
| 1996 | David Malouf | Australia | Remembering Babylon |
| 1997 | Javier Marías | Spain | A Heart So White (translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa) |
| 1998 | Herta Müller | Germany (born in Romania) |
The Land of Green Plums (translated from the German by Michael Hofmann) |
| 1999 | Andrew Miller | United Kingdom | Ingenious Pain |
| 2000 | Nicola Barker | United Kingdom | Wide Open |
| 2001 | Alistair MacLeod | Canada | No Great Mischief |
| 2002 | Michel Houellebecq | France | Atomised/The Elementary Particles (aka Atomised) (translated from French by Frank Wynne) |
| 2003 | Orhan Pamuk | Turkey | My Name Is Red (translated from Turkish by Erdağ Göknar) |
| 2004 | Tahar Ben Jelloun | Morocco | This Blinding Absence of Light (translated from French by Linda Coverdale) |
| 2005 | Edward P. Jones | United States | The Known World |
| 2006 | Colm Tóibín | Ireland | The Master |
| 2007 | Per Petterson | Norway | Out Stealing Horses (translated from Norwegian by Anne Born) |
| 2008 | Rawi Hage | Canada (born in Lebanon) |
De Niro’s Game |
| 2009 | Michael Thomas | United States | Man Gone Down |
| 2010 | Gerbrand Bakker | Netherlands | The Twin (translated from the Dutch by David Colmer) |
| 2011 | Colum McCann | Ireland | Let the Great World Spin |
| 2012 | Jon McGregor | United Kingdom (born in Bermuda) | Even the Dogs |
| 2013 | Kevin Barry | Ireland | City of Bohane |
| 2014 | Juan Gabriel Vásquez | Colombia | The Sound of Things Falling (translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean) |
| 2015 | Jim Crace | United Kingdom | Harvest |
| 2016 | Akhil Sharma | United States (born in India) |
Family Life |
