All 51 winners of the Man Booker from the last five decades are
slated to be pitted against each other as The Booker Prize Foundation on
Friday Feb 16,2018 launched the Golden Man Booker Prize to mark its 50th
anniversary.
This Golden Man Booker will crown the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the prize, as chosen by five judges and then voted for by the public.
Since it was first awarded in 1969, the Man Booker Prize has become the leading prize for quality fiction in English, with the winning books setting a benchmark against which other novels are judged.
The Golden Man Booker will put all 51 winners – which are all still in print – back under the spotlight, to discover which of them has stood the test of time, remaining relevant to readers today.
Five judges have been appointed to read the winning novels from each decade of the prize.
Each judge will choose what, in his or her opinion, is the best winner from that particular decade, and will champion that book against the other judges’ selections.
The judges’ ‘Golden Five’ shortlist will be announced at the Hay Festival on 26 May 2018.
The five books will then be put to a month long public vote from 26 May to 25 June on the Man Booker Prize website to decide the overall winner, announced at the Man Booker 50 Festival on 8 July 2018
Five leading Indian-origin authors are in the run for a one-off special Golden Man Booker Prize to mark the 50th anniversary of the literary awards this year.
Salman Rushdie, who won the prize in 1983 when he was just 25 years of age for Midnight's Children, is a favorite.
This Golden Man Booker will crown the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the prize, as chosen by five judges and then voted for by the public.
Since it was first awarded in 1969, the Man Booker Prize has become the leading prize for quality fiction in English, with the winning books setting a benchmark against which other novels are judged.
The Golden Man Booker will put all 51 winners – which are all still in print – back under the spotlight, to discover which of them has stood the test of time, remaining relevant to readers today.
Five judges have been appointed to read the winning novels from each decade of the prize.
Each judge will choose what, in his or her opinion, is the best winner from that particular decade, and will champion that book against the other judges’ selections.
The judges’ ‘Golden Five’ shortlist will be announced at the Hay Festival on 26 May 2018.
The five books will then be put to a month long public vote from 26 May to 25 June on the Man Booker Prize website to decide the overall winner, announced at the Man Booker 50 Festival on 8 July 2018
Five leading Indian-origin authors are in the run for a one-off special Golden Man Booker Prize to mark the 50th anniversary of the literary awards this year.
Salman Rushdie, who won the prize in 1983 when he was just 25 years of age for Midnight's Children, is a favorite.
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