Rushdie best of the Bookers

SALMAN Rushdie’s novel, Midnight’s Children, has been named the greatest Booker-prize winner of all time.

The novel, the author’s second, wins the title 27 years after its publication, when it was hailed as a masterpiece in postcolonial literature.

Magic realist novel Midnight’s Children won the Booker in 1981 and the Booker of Bookers, the only other time a celebratory award has been created for the prize, in 1993.