{"id":153163,"date":"2018-02-16T01:23:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T06:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=153163"},"modified":"2018-02-16T01:23:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T06:23:39","slug":"booker-prize-to-mark-50th-birthday-by-naming-overall-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/16\/booker-prize-to-mark-50th-birthday-by-naming-overall-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker Prize to mark 50th birthday by naming overall champ"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_153164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153164\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Man-Booker-Prize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-153164\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Man-Booker-Prize.jpg\" alt=\"Organizers of the Man Booker Prize for fiction are marking the award's 50th anniversary by choosing an overall champion from past winners. (Photo: The Man Booker Prize\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Man-Booker-Prize.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Man-Booker-Prize-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Man-Booker-Prize-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-153164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Organizers of the Man Booker Prize for fiction are marking the award&#8217;s 50th anniversary by choosing an overall champion from past winners. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ManBookerPrize\/photos\/a.1867106599969531.1073741843.112771635403045\/1867107993302725\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ManBookerPrize\/\">The Man Booker Prize\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 Organizers of the Man Booker Prize for fiction are marking the award&#8217;s 50th anniversary by choosing an overall champion from past winners.<\/p>\n<p>There have been 51 Booker winners since 1969, since the prize has twice ended in a tie. The Golden Man Booker Prize, announced Friday, aims to find out which has best stood the test of time.<\/p>\n<p>Judges will select one finalist from each decade, before a public vote decides the overall winner. The champion will be announced July 8.<\/p>\n<p>Past winners of the 50,000-pound ($70,000) prize include V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and Hilary Mantel.<\/p>\n<p>Originally open to British, Irish and Commonwealth writers, it expanded in 2014 to include all English-language authors. Since then there have been two American winners, Paul Beatty and George Saunders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Organizers of the Man Booker Prize for fiction are marking the award&#8217;s 50th anniversary by choosing an overall &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":153164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[46751,46750],"class_list":["post-153163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-50th-birthday","tag-booker-prize","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}