Which special 2018 award did 'The English Patient' win?

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The English Patient won the Golden Man Booker in 2018.

The Golden Man Booker was a special, one-off award created to mark the Booker Prize’s 50th anniversary. It considered all 51 novels that had won the Booker from its beginning in 1969 through 2017. Five judges each selected a winning book from a different decade, producing a final shortlist of five titles.

The finalists were V. S. Naipaul’s In a Free State, Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger, Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo. A public vote then chose the overall winner. The English Patient prevailed, and Ondaatje received the award at a ceremony at London’s Southbank Centre on 8 July 2018.

The novel had already won the 1992 Booker Prize. Set against the North African and Italian campaigns of the Second World War, it brings together four damaged, displaced people in an Italian villa. The award is sometimes confused with Best of the Booker or Booker of Bookers, names associated with earlier retrospective celebrations rather than this specific 2018 title.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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