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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Man Booker International Prize


The Man Booker International Prize is a Biennial International Literary Award  given to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation.

The introduction of the International Prize was announced in June 2004.The award is worth £60,000 and an author can only win once.

The award, which is sponsored by the Man Group, complements the Man Booker Prize and rewards one author's "continued creativity, development and overall contribution to fiction on the world stage

While the Man Booker Prize is only open to writers from the Commonwealth, Ireland and Zimbabwe, the International Prize is open to all nationalities

Award Winners Details are -


Year
Name
Country
Language
Literary Tradition
2005
Ismail Kadare
Albania
Albanian
Albanian Literature
2007
Chinua Achebe
Nigeria
English
Nigerian Literature
2009
Alice Munro
Canada
English
Canadian Literature
2011
Philip Roth
USA
English
American Literature
2013
Lydia Davis
USA
English
American Literature













































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