Robert McCrum explains why he chose 'In a Free State' by V. S. Naipaul for the Golden Man Booker Prize shortlist.

To mark the 50th anniversary in 2018, The Booker Prize Foundation launched the Golden Man Booker Prize. This was a special one-off award that crowned the best work of fiction from the last five decades of prize, as chosen by five judges and then voted for by the public.

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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Promise by Damon Galgut, and many more.

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