![]() ![]() The judges were: Robert McCrum, who chose In a Free State by V. All 51 previous winners were considered by a panel of five specially appointed judges, each of whom was asked to read the winning novels from one decade of the prize’s history, before the books faced a month-long public vote on the Man Booker website. ![]() The winner of this special one-off award for the Man Booker Prize’s 50 th anniversary celebrations was chosen by the public. The Golden Man Booker winner was revealed at the closing event of the Man Booker 50 Festival in Royal Festival Hall at Southbank Centre. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Bloomsbury) has been crowned the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the Man Booker Prize, it was announced today (Sunday 8 July). Celebrating five decades of the finest fiction ![]()
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