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Golden Man Booker prize

A one-off award presented in 2018 to honour the best work of fiction from the first five decades of the prize, as chosen by five judges and then voted for by the public.

September 2018

  • What were the judges saying? … guests at the Guildhall in London waiting for the anouncement of the 2012 award.

    'Over my dead body': Booker prize archives reveal unknown judging battles

    British Library puts archive online, ranging from the coin-toss that won David Storey 1976’s award to Joanna Lumley’s disdain for The Bone People

July 2018

  • Penelope Lively

    Reading group
    Moon Tiger: ferociously complicated – and fantastically readable

  • Michael Ondaatje

    The English Patient wins public poll of best Man Booker in 50 years

  • Penelope Lively.

    Reading group
    Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger is our reading group choice for July

  • Shortlisted authors for the 2016 prize were, from left, Paul Beatty – the first American to win, following a change in rules – Deborah Levy, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Ottessa Moshfegh, David Szalay and Madeleine Thien.

    The Man Booker at 50: flawed – but still the best way to judge our literature

June 2018

  • Which Booker winner sits on your pedestal?

    Reading group
    Reading group: Help choose a Booker prize winner to read in July

  • Hay Festival 2018

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Hay festival 2018: the Golden Booker, Akala, Tishani Doshi and more

May 2018

  • Michael Ondaatje

    Hits and surprises as judges reveal the Man Booker’s shortlist of five golden decades

  • Claire Armitstead

    Books blog
    Will Midnight's Children come up golden for Salman Rushdie again?

    Claire Armitstead

April 2018

  • Booker winners Peter Carey, Hilary Mantel and Kazuo Ishiguro.

    Man Booker festival: Peter Carey, Kazuo Ishiguro and Hilary Mantel among lineup

    ‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ gathering of winners in London in July will include rare joint appearance from mother-daughter honorees Anita and Kiran Desai
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