Naipaul, Rushdie vying for one-off Golden Booker Prize
February 16, 2018  23:16
Leading Indian-origin authors like VS Naipaul and Salman Rushdie are in the run for a one-off special Golden Man Booker Prize to mark the literary award's 50th anniversary this year.
The new award, launched in London today, will involve five judges whittling down titles from the past five decades which will then be put forward for a public vote to come up with an overall winner.
 
The Indian-origin authors in the running include Naipaul for his 1971 winner 'In a Free State'; Rushdie for 'Midnight's Children' (1981); Arundhati Roy for 'The God of Small Things' (1997); Kiran Desai for 'The Inheritance of Loss' (2006); and Aravind Adiga for 'The White Tiger' (2008).
 
Each judge has been assigned a decade from which they will select one former Booker Prize winning author to create a 'Golden Five' shortlist, to be unveiled at Hay Literary Festival in May.
 
The five books will then be put to a month-long public vote from May 26 to June 25 on the Man Booker Prize website to decide the overall winner, which will be announced at the "Man Booker 50" Festival on July 8.   
Rushdie is considered a frontrunner after he won a similar public vote for the Best of Booker Award in 2008 to mark the literary award' 40th anniversary. -- PTI
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