Which novel won the 1993 Booker of Bookers prize?

Midnight's Children won the 1993 Booker of Bookers prize. Salman Rushdie’s novel had originally won the Booker Prize in 1981, and the later special award selected it as the best Booker-winning novel of the prize’s first 25 years.

The 1993 award was a one-off anniversary prize rather than a normal annual Booker. Three former Booker judges—Malcolm Bradbury, David Holloway and W. L. Webb—chose from the novels that had already won the award. Their decision gave Rushdie’s densely plotted story of Saleem Sinai, whose life parallels India’s post-independence history, another major distinction.

A common mix-up is with The Best of the Booker, a separate public-vote award held in 2008 for the prize’s 40th anniversary. Midnight's Children won that award too, making it the only novel to take both special “best Booker” honours. The novel’s original 1981 Booker victory also preceded Rushdie’s later international fame and the controversy surrounding The Satanic Verses.