The golden Man Booker race celebrates the 50th year of Britain’s leading prize for fiction, taking a single title from each of those decades. “The golden Booker is a stunt, of course, but a surprisingly worthwhile one,” said McCrum. Salman Rushdie, who won the Booker prize with Midnight’s Children in 1981 and who is attending the Hay festival this year, also did not make the grade. Neither did Kazuo Ishiguro, the winner of the Nobel prize for literature last year and a Booker winner in 1989 for The Remains of the Day. The five judges were asked to read, or reread, each winner from their given decade before selecting what Man Booker is calling the golden five.

Source: The Guardian May 26, 2018 18:00 UTC