UK’s main prize for fiction to mark its 50th year by calling on star judges to winnow down previous honorees before a public vote on an overall victorPitting the likes of Hilary Mantel and Ian McEwan against Iris Murdoch and Kingsley Amis,the Man Booker prize has announced a one-off, “Golden” Man Booker prize that will see all 51 previous winners in competition to be named the best work of fiction of the final half-century.
The original award, and announced on Friday as part of the literary prize’s 50th anniversary celebrations,will be judged by five judges and then voted for by the public. Each judge has been assigned a decade, from which they will select a best winner to create a “Golden Five shortlist, or which will be revealed at Hay literary festival on 26 May.
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Source: guardian.co.uk