Celebrating its 50 years, Booker Prize declared its “Best of Man Booker Prize” on 7th of July 2018. Which book won this prize?

Celebrating its 50 years, Booker Prize declared its “Best of Man Booker Prize” on 7th of July 2018. Which book won this prize? Correct Answer The English Patient

The correct answer is The English Patient.

 Key Points

• In 2018, the Man Booker Prize celebrated 50 years of the finest fiction with year-long anniversary celebrations and a campaign to introduce new audiences to its winning, shortlisted, and longlisted authors.
• “The English Patient,” the wartime love story by Michael Ondaatje, won the Golden Man Booker Prize.
• The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian Campaign of World War II.

 Additional Information

• The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy.
• Home Fire (2017) is the seventh novel by Kamila Shamsie.
• It reimagines Sophocles's play Antigone unfolding among British Muslims.
• Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878.

 Important Points

• The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize, is a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
• For the year 2020, Douglas Stuart has won the Booker Prize for the novel Shuggie Bain.