Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981. It also won two special retrospective prizes. What were they?
- The Golden Booker (2018) and the Best of the Booker (2008)
- The Booker of Bookers (1993) and the Best of the Booker (2008)
- The Booker of Bookers (1993) and the Golden Booker (2018)
- The International Booker (2005) and the Booker of Bookers (1993)
Answer: The Booker of Bookers (1993) — best novel of the first 25 years; and the Best of the Booker (2008) — public vote for the best of the first 40 years
Midnight's Children won the regular Booker Prize in 1981. In 1993, on the prize's 25th anniversary, a special panel selected it as the Booker of Bookers — the best novel to have won in the first quarter century. In 2008, on the 40th anniversary, a public vote chose it again as the Best of the Booker. It is the only novel to have won both retrospective prizes. A third special award — the Golden Booker (50th anniversary, 2018) — went to The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje.