Friday, 11 July 2008

Rushdie Wins Best of the Booker

Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children has been awarded the Best of the Booker prize, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the awards.

The shortlist comprised of five other previous Booker winners, Pat Barker’s The Ghost Road, Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda, J M Coetzee’s Disgrace, J G Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur and Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist.

This comes as the third Booker award for Rushdie, who is ‘absolutely delighted’ and graciously thanked ‘all those readers around the world who voted for Midnight's Children’.

Panalist Victoria Glendinning said that the novel had won by a "quite a large margin".

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

How predictable - this was one of the favourites all along - especially once the shortlist was announced.

Oh well, I haven't read it so I suppose I can't judge!