Golden Man Booker Award Announced for 50th Anniversary Celebration
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker Prize, the literary award widely regarded as the most prestigious in the English-speaking world. To commemorate the semi-centennial, the Booker Prize foundation has plans for a number of global activities—literary festivals, to draw attention to the history of the award. Among these initiatives is the awarding of the first ever Golden Man Booker Prize. It will crown one work the single best work of fiction published since the award’s inception in 1969.
The fifty-one winners from the half-century history of the prize will all now be in contention for the Golden Man Booker, whose authors include the likes of George Saunders, Michael Ondaatje, Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood. These books will be judged by a panel of five judges who will each read selections from one decade.
The fifty-one winners from the half-century history of the prize will all now be in contention for the Golden Man Booker, whose authors include the likes of George Saunders, Michael Ondaatje, Ian McEwan and Margaret Atwood. These books will be judged by a panel of five judges who will each read selections from one decade.
- Hollie McNish: 2010s
- Simon Mayo: 2000s
- Kamila Shamsie: 1990s
