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Booker Prize - 2008
The Man Booker Prize is the UK's annual celebration of the finest in fiction. The winner of the £50,000 prize - Aravind Adiga - was announced at an awards ceremony at the Guildhall, London on Tuesday 14th October and becomes only the third first-time author to be selected in the award's 40 year history.
Earlier this year, a special award - "The Best of the Booker" - was created to mark the fortieth anniversary of the award.
Salman Rushdie was
voted the winner for his novel, Midnight's Children.
» See also last year's Man Booker Prize 2007 - won
by Anne Enright's, "The Gathering".
2008 Booker Prize - Winner
by: Aravind Adiga
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Booker Prize 2008 - Shortlist
The shortlist for the 2008 Man Booker Prize was announced in September.
by: Amitav Ghosh
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by: Philip Hensher
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by: Linda Grant
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by: Steve Toltz
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by: Sebastian Barry
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Booker Prize 2008 - Longlist
The longlist for the 2008 Man Booker Prize was announced at the end of July. Following his success in the 40 Year Anniversary Best of the Booker Award, Salman Rushdie once again featured in the main Booker prize with "The Enchantress of Florence".
Best of the Booker - 40 Year Anniversary
The Man Booker Prize is the UK's annual celebration of the finest in fiction. This year a special celebratory award
- The Best of the Booker - was created to mark the 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize. A shortlist of six previous
winners was drawn up and the public invited to vote for their favourite.
The winner was Salman Rushdie's novel, Midnight's Children, winner of the Booker Prize in 1981. Remarkably,
the same book also won the 25th anniversary award back in 1993 - the only other special Booker Award to be created.
by: Salman Rushdie
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Shortlist - Best of the Booker
