British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, a winner of the Man Booker Prize in 1981 for “Midnight’s Children,” is back in contention for the foundation’s special one-off award: its ‘Golden Man Booker Prize’ to mark the literary awards’ 50th anniversary.
Along with Rushdie, four other Indian-origin authors are in the run for this award which will crown the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the prize, as chosen by five judges and then voted for by the public: V.S. Naipaul for “In a Free State” (1971); Arundhati Roy for “The God of Small Things” (1997); Indian American Kiran Desai for “The Inheritance of Loss” (2006); and Aravind Adiga for “The White Tiger” (2008).