Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children Wins The Best of the Booker
It’s all over the international press: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children Wins The Best of the Booker.
In order to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize, six previous winners of the award were shortlisted by a panel of judges and submitted for public vote in order to be awarded the Best of the Booker title.
Pat Barker’s The Ghost Road
- 1995
Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda
- 1988
JM Coetzee’s Disgrace
- 1999
JG Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur
- 1973
Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist
- 1974
Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children - 1981
Midnight’s Children brought Salman Rushdie to fame, the Indian-British novelist, since 1981 when it won the Booker Prize first time, this year’s win setting it as the only novel that won the prize twice.
At the exact time when India become independent (August 1947, at midnight), Saleem Sinai is born and the book follows his personal and national history.
