Multiple choice general knowledge

He won a booker prize in 1981, and then again in 1993 his book was awarded Booker of Bookers as the best novel to win the award in the first 25 years of its existence. Which author are we talking about?

  1. William Boyd

  2. William Golding

  3. Salman Rushdie

  4. V. S. Naipaul
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Explanation

Salman Rushdie won the Booker Prize in 1981 for 'Midnight's Children.' In 1993, the same novel was awarded 'Booker of Bookers' in a special competition to mark the award's 25th anniversary, judged as the best novel to have won the prize in its first 25 years. The novel remains a landmark work of postcolonial literature.

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