{"id":81238,"date":"2018-07-09T10:49:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T23:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=81238"},"modified":"2018-07-09T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T05:51:08","slug":"english-patient-wins-golden-man-booker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2018\/07\/09\/english-patient-wins-golden-man-booker\/","title":{"rendered":"The English Patient wins The Golden Man Booker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The English Patient<\/em> <\/a>\"English<\/a>by Michael Ondaatje has won the Golden Man Booker Prize!<\/p>\n

The Golden Man Booker is a one-time-only award given in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker Prize.<\/p>\n

The shortlist<\/a> was chosen by the prize\u2019s five judges to showcase the winning titles that have best stood the test of time. Each judge was assigned to a decade and tasked with selecting the Man Booker Prize winning novel that they felt best represented their allocated decade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The English Patient<\/em><\/a> was selected to represent the 1990s by novelist Kamila Shamsie. The other novels chosen were In a Free State<\/em><\/a> by V. S. Naipaul; Moon Tiger<\/em><\/a> by Penelope Lively; Wolf Hall<\/em><\/a> by Hilary Mantel; and Lincoln in the Bardo<\/em><\/a> by George Saunders.<\/p>\n

The winner was decided by public poll, with The English Patient<\/em><\/a> receiving nearly nine thousand votes.<\/p>\n

On her selection Kamila Shamsie says, \u201cThe English Patient is that rare novel which gets under your skin and insists you return to it time and again, always yielding a new surprise or delight. It\u2019s intricately (and rewardingly) structured, beautifully written, with great humanity written into every page.”<\/p>\n

In 1992, two novels were awarded the Man Booker Prize – The English Patient<\/em> by Michael Ondaatje and Sacred Hunger<\/em><\/a> by Barry Unsworth tied for first place. Four years later, The English Patient<\/em> was adapted as an award-winning film<\/a> starring Ralph Fiennes and Kristen Scott Thomas.<\/p>\n

Highly acclaimed and widely beloved, it is very fitting that The English Patient<\/em> has been awarded this additional honour.<\/p>\n

Click here to view the Golden Man Booker Award Shortlist<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje has won the Golden Man Booker Prize! The Golden Man Booker is a one-time-only award given in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker Prize. The shortlist was chosen by the prize\u2019s five judges to showcase the winning titles that have best stood the test of time. Each judge was assigned to a decade and tasked with selecting the Man Booker Prize winning novel that they felt best represented their allocated decade. The English Patient was selected to represent the 1990s by novelist Kamila Shamsie. The other novels chosen were In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul; Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively; Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel; and Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. The winner was decided by public poll, with The English Patient receiving nearly nine thousand votes. On her selection Kamila Shamsie says, \u201cThe English Patient is that rare novel which gets under your skin and insists you return to it time and again, always yielding a new surprise or delight. It\u2019s intricately (and rewardingly) structured, beautifully written, with great humanity written into every page.” In 1992, two novels were awarded the Man Booker Prize – The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":81244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[7270,8976,2426,8979,7269,3690,8978,4208,5484,8977,6585],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/English-Patient-Social.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81238"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81293,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81238\/revisions\/81293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}