The Times launches 40th anniversary quiz

Readers offered chance to own all 41 winning titles

29 March 2008

To mark the 40th anniversary of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, The Times(UK) has launched a competition today giving its readers the chance to win every single winning novel in the prize’s history. The winner of the 41 books will have to succeed in answering correctly the forty questions in a fiendishly difficult quiz set by Peter Straus, Honorary Archivist of the Man Booker Prize.

The winner of the quiz will receive a copy of every Booker-winning work, from the inaugural winner, Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby, to last year’s The Gathering by Anne Enright. With two winners being awarded in 1974 and 1992, this means a total of 41 books altogether.

Three runners-up in the Times Quiz will each win a set of the past five years’ winning books: The Gathering by Anne Enright, The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai, The Sea by John Banville, The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst and Vernon God Little by D.B.C. Pierre.

Hopefuls can find out more about the anniversary quiz at Times Books Online.

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