He did it once in 1981, then took the ‘best of 25 years award’ in 1993 and now Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is being tipped to do a unique treble and win the Booker 40th Anniversary Award.
The other books on the shortlist are:
Pat Barker’s The Ghost Road
Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda
JM Coetzee’s Disgrace
JG Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur
Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist
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Read more at The Sydney Morning Herald.