Midnight's Children wins Best of Booker

Salman Rushdie's second novel Midnight's Children has been voted the best ever winner of the Booker prize for the second time.

The Best of Booker award was announced at the London literature festival this afternoon, marking the prize's 40th anniversary.

Midnight's Children, an epic story set against the 1947 Partition of India, also won a similar contest, the Booker of Bookers, held in1993.

The winner was judged by ordinary readers and at least half of them were under 35.

Rushdie commented on the news: "I'm absolutely delighted and would like to thank all those readers around the world who voted.

"It's very exciting and gratifying, the more so because so many of the voters were so young. I'm very happy to think that Midnight's Children continues to be relevant."

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