Salman Rushie’s MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN won the Best of the Booker designation–for the second time–as part of the prize’s 40th anniversary celebration. (He won a similar designation, the Booker of Bookers, after the 25 years of the prize.) South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes won the Caine Prize for African writing for her story, POISON is a piece about environmental disaster in Cape Town.Booker/GuardianBBC/Caine
