2 July 2018
The passage of time, 50 years of literary hoo-ha, has been both cruel and kind to the Man Booker prize, which will next month celebrate its half-century (the majority of those years as the Booker) at the Royal Festival Hall. The world's self-styled premier English-language literary prize has marked this milestone by inviting the public to vote on a "Golden Booker" chosen from five decades of winners.