‘Midnight’s Children’ voted best Booker Prize winner

Updated Saturday, July 12, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AFP

‘Midnight’s Children’ voted best Booker Prize winner

LONDON -- Salman Rushdie’s novel “Midnight’s Children” was named Thursday as the greatest Booker Prize winner ever, scooping a special “best of the best” award for the second time.

The British author’s second novel edged out five others chosen from the 41 winners of the highly-regarded Booker Prize, in a public vote. One of the literary world’s most prestigious awards, the annual Booker Prize goes to the best work of fiction by an author from the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.

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