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Vote for The Best of the Booker Prize

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Booker Prize, six authors are in the running to win a one-off award and be titled The Best of the Booker.

The shortlist was announced on Monday 12 May with voting opening here on the website and via SMS Text Messaging.

The six authors with the opportunity to be called Best of the Booker are Pat Barker, Peter Carey, JM Coetzee, JG Farrell, Nadine Gordimer and Salman Rushdie.

For full details on how to vote via SMS please visit the FAQs page.

For more information visit the News section where full details are announced.

Voting for the prize will end at Midday on Tuesday 8 July with results of the winner announced on Thursday 10 July.

Vote disclaimer policy

Closing date for the Best of the Booker Prize vote is 12 noon 8 July 2008.
Voting is open to residents worldwide and there is only one vote per person. Please feel free to read the website privacy policy before voting or supplying your email address.

Which of the following titles is your Best of the Booker Prize?

  • Pat Barker’s The Ghost Road
  • Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda
  • JM Coetzee’s Disgrace
  • J G Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur
  • Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist
  • Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

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