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Golden Man Booker International Prize 2018
July 11 , 2018
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- Sri Lanka-born Canadian literary icon Michael Ondaatje's 'The English Patient' has won the special one-off Golden Man Booker Prize at the Southbank Centre in London.
- The prize was instituted as part of celebrations to mark the Booker’s having completed 50 years and the one-off award was voted by the public.
- The shortlist of five novels was selected by a panel of judges from the 51 previous winners of the Man Booker.
- 'The English Patient' is a tale of love and conflict during World War II.
- Previously, 'The English Patient' had shared the 1992 Booker Prize with Barry Unsworth's 18th century slave tale 'Sacred Hunger'.
- In 2008, the Booker Prize held a similar competition for its 40th anniversary, when the public voted for Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children', which originally won in 1981.
- The Booker Prize for Fiction was first awarded in 1969 and has been sponsored by Man Group since 2002.
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