Who was the recipient of the 1981 Booker Prize for their novel 'Midnight's Children'?
Booker Prize a book a day – is absurd, as is the idea that this is any way of honouring a writer".. The winner is usually announced at a ceremony in London's Guildhall, usually in early October. In 1993, to mark the prize's 25th anniversary, a ""Booker of Bookers" Prize" was given. Three previous judges of the award, Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb, met and chose Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children", the 1981 winner, as "the best novel out of all the winners." In 2006, the Man Booker Prize set up a 'Best of Beryl' prize, for the author Beryl
Booker Prize English-language novel—a change which proved controversial. A high-profile literary award in British culture, the Booker Prize is greeted with great anticipation and fanfare. It is also a mark of distinction for authors to be selected for inclusion in the shortlist or even to be nominated for the "longlist". The prize was originally known as the Booker–McConnell Prize, after the company Booker, McConnell Ltd began sponsoring the event in 1969; it became commonly known as the "Booker Prize" or simply "the Booker". When administration of the prize was transferred to the Booker Prize Foundation in 2002, the title sponsor became the