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Best Of The Booker, Again.(Periscope; LITERARY PHENOMENA)(Booker Prize)
Byline: Katie Baker
For the 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize--Britain's annual award for the best novel by a Commonwealth or Irish citizen--a Best of the Booker is being bestowed on July 10. The winner (who gets a trophy and bragging rights) will be chosen by popular vote from among six preselected finalists. The shortlisted names are illustrious: Nadine Gordimer, J. M. Coetzee. But none of the contestants truly stands a chance against the supernova shining in their midst, one Sir Salman Rushdie and his incandescent breakthrough novel, "Midnight's Children."
Other Booker winners who might have given Rushdie a run for his money--"Life of Pi," for example--failed to make the cut, and Rushdie has already won a Booker of Bookers on the prize's 25th anniversary. While his five rivals are notable examples of English ...
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