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LONDON — Yann Martel and Salman Rushdie are the front-runners in a contest to choose the best-ever winner of literature's prestigious Booker Prize.
The Best of the Booker award is being handed out to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the fiction prize, open to writers from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth.
Judges will pick six finalists. The winner will be chosen by public vote and announced in July.
Bookmakers William Hill say Yann Martel's 2002 winner "Life of Pi" is the 4-to-1 favorite for the prize. Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" and Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient" are next in line.
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