The public now has a chance to vote for ‘The Best of the Booker' after the shortlist for the one-off celebratory award was released on Monday 12 May.
The public now has a chance to vote for ‘The Best of the Booker' after the shortlist for the one-off celebratory award was released on Monday 12 May. Overlooking the bookies' favourite, Yann Martel's Life of Pi, judges Victoria Glendinning, Mariella Frostrup and John Mullan selected the following six winners of the prestigious prize, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year:
‘It was a great experience, revisiting all the Booker and Man Booker Prize winners, and very tough arriving at the shortlist--but we really feel that the six novels we picked represent the best fiction-writing of the past 40 years,' said Glendinning.
The winner will be announced at the London Literature Festival in July.
Votes can be registered at the Man Booker Prize website, https://www.themanbookerprize.com.
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