Man Booker International Prize

The Man Booker International Prize is an international

literary award hosted in the United Kingdom. The introduction of the International Prize to complement the
Man Booker Prize was announced in June 2004.[1] Sponsored by the Man Group, from 2005 until 2015 the award
was given every two years to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation.[2] It rewarded one
authors continued creativity, development and overall
contribution to ction on the world stage,[3] and was a
recognition of the writers body of work rather than any
one title.[2] The judges for the year compiled their own
lists of authors, and submissions were not invited.[2]

ally to a book in English translation, with a 50,000 prize

for the winning title to be shared equally between author
and translator. Each shortlisted author and translator receives 1,000. This brings the total prize fund to 62,000
per year, compared to the previous 37,500 for the Man
Booker International Prize and 10,000 for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. The new Man Booker International Prize complements the Man Booker Prize. The
judges select a longlist of 12 or 13 books in March, followed by a shortlist of six in April, with the winner announced in May.[7]

Beginning in 2016, the award was signicantly 2 History

recongured.[4] It is now given annually to a single
book in English translation, with a 50,000 prize for The inaugural winner was Albanian writer Ismail Kadare.
the winning title, shared equally between author and He was followed by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe in
translator.[4]
2007, and two years later the Canadian writer Alice
Munro won the award. In 2011 the prize was awarded
to American Philip Roth. Praising its concerted judgement, the journalist Hephzibah Anderson noted that the
1 Prizes
Man Booker International Prize was fast becoming the
more signicant award, appearing an ever more compe1.1 Pre-2016
tent alternative to the Nobel.[8]
In 2015 it was announced that the Independent Foreign
Fiction Prize would be disbanded.[4] The prize money
from that award would be folded into the Man Booker
International Prize, and the latter would become what the
Independent prize used to be: a yearly book award for
English translations, with the prize split between author
and translator.[9]

While the Man Booker Prize was, from its beginning,

only open to writers from the Commonwealth, Ireland
and Zimbabwe (but later opened to authors from all
over the world), the International Prize was open to all
nationalities.[5] The award was worth 60,000 and an author could only win once.[3] The Man Booker International prize also allowed for a separate award for translation. The winning author could choose a translator
of their work into English to receive a prize sum of
15,000.[6]

3 Award winners

A similar prize to the original Man Booker International

Prize is the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, 4
also awarded biennially. By contrast, the Nobel Prize in
Literature, the International Dublin Literary Award, and
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the Franz Kafka Prize are each awarded annually.

Nominations
2005

Winner

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Post-2016

Ismail Kadare

On Tuesday 7 July 2015, the Booker Prize Foundation

announced that the Man Booker International Prize was
to evolve from 2016 onwards into a prize for ction in
translation. Its aim is to encourage more publishing and
reading of quality works in translation, and to highlight
the work of translators. The award is now given annu-

Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare was named the inaugural

International Prize winner in 2005.[10] Head judge, Professor John Carey said Kadare is a universal writer in
the tradition of storytelling that goes back to Homer.[10]
Kadare said he was deeply honoured at being awarded
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4 NOMINATIONS

the prize.[10] Kadare was also able to select a translator Munros work, Smiley said Her work is practically perto receive an additional prize of 15,000.[10] The writer fect. Any writer has to gawk when reading her because
received his award in Edinburgh on 27 June.[10]
her work is very subtle and precise. Her thoughtfulness about every subject is so concentrated.[12] Munro,
who said she was totally amazed and delighted at her
Judging panel
win, received the award at Trinity College, Dublin on 25
June.[2][12]
John Carey (Chair)[10]
Alberto Manguel[1]
Azar Nasi[1]
Nominees

Judging panel
Jane Smiley (Chair)[12]
Amit Chaudhuri[12]

Andrey Kurkov[2]
The nominees for the inaugural Man Booker International
Prize were announced on 2 June 2005 at Georgetown
University in Washington, D.C.[3]
Nominees

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2007

Winner
Chinua Achebe

The nominees for the third Man Booker International

Prize were announced on 18 March 2009 at The New
York Public Library.[13]

4.4 2011

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe was awarded the Inter- Winner

national Prize for his literary career in 2007.[11] Judge
Nadine Gordimer said Achebe was the father of mod Philip Roth
ern African literature and that he was integral to world
literature.[11] Achebe received his award on 28 June in
American novelist Roth was announced as the winner on
Oxford.[11]
18 May 2011 at the Sydney Writers Festival.[14] Of his
win, Roth said This is a great honour and I'm delighted to
Judging panel
receive it.[14] The writer said he hoped the prize would
bring him to the attention of readers around the world
Elaine Showalter[5]
who are not currently familiar with his body of work.[14]
Roth received his award in London on 28 June; however,
Nadine Gordimer[5]
he was unable to attend in person due to ill health, so he
[5]
sent a short video instead.[14][15]
Colm Tibin
Nominees

Judging panel

The nominees for the second Man Booker International

Prize were announced on 12 April 2007 at Massey College in Toronto.[5]

Rick Gekoski (Chair)[16]

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Justin Cartwright[16]

2009

Winner

Carmen Callil (withdrew in protest over choice of

winner)[16]

After Roth was announced as the winner, Carmen Callil

withdrew from the judging panel, saying I don't rate him
as a writer at all... in 20 years time will anyone read
Alice Munro
him?" Callil later wrote an editorial in The Guardian
her position and why she chose to leave the
Canadian short story writer Munro was named the win- explaining
[6][17]
panel.
[12]
ner of the prize in 2009 for her lifetime body of work.
Judge Jane Smiley said picking a winner had been a
challenge, but Munro had won the panel over.[12] On Nominees

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2016

The nominees for the fourth Man Booker International

Prize were announced on 30 March 2011 at a ceremony in
Sydney, Australia.[18] John le Carr asked to be removed
from consideration, saying he was attered, but that he
does not compete for literary prizes.[19] However, judge
Dr Rick Gekoski said although he was disappointed that
le Carr wanted to withdraw, his name would remain on
the list.[19]

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who chaired the panel of judges that selected Krasznahorkai for the award, compared his writing to Kafka and
Beckett. Krasnahorkais translators, George Szirtes and
Ottilie Mulzet, shared the 15,000 translators prize.[25]
Judging Panel
Marina Warner (Chair)[26]
Nadeem Aslam

2013

Elleke Boehmer

Winner

Edwin Frank
Wen-chin Ouyang

Lydia Davis[20]
Lydia Davis, best known as a short story writer, was announced as the winner of the 2013 prize on 22 May
at a ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in
London.[20] The ocial announcement of Davis award
on the Man Booker Prize website described her work
as having the brevity and precision of poetry. Judging
panel chair Christopher Ricks commented that There is
vigilance to her stories, and great imaginative attention.
Vigilance as how to realise things down to the very word
or syllable; vigilance as to everybodys impure motives
and illusions of feeling.[21]

Nominees
The nominees for the sixth Man Booker International
Prize were announced on 24 March 2015.[26]

4.7 2016
Winner
Han Kang (South Korea), Deborah Smith (translator), for The Vegetarian

Judging Panel
Christopher Ricks (Chair)

[22]

Elif Batuman[22]
Aminatta Forna[22]
Yiyun Li[22]
Tim Parks[22]
Nominees
The nominees for the fth Man Booker International
Prize were announced on 24 January 2013.[23] Marilynne
Robinson was the only writer out of the ten nominees who
had been nominated for the prize before.[23]

Han became the rst Korean author to win the prize

and, under the new format for 2016, Smith became the
rst translator to share the prize. British journalist Boyd
Tonkin, who chaired the judging panel, said that the decision was unanimous. He also said of the book in a
style both lyrical and lacerating, it reveals the impact of
this great refusal both on the heroine herself and on those
around her. This compact, exquisite and disturbing book
will linger long in the minds, and maybe the dreams, of
its readers.[27]
Judging Panel[28]
Boyd Tonkin (Chair)
Tahmima Anam
David Bellos

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2015

Winner
Lszl Krasznahorkai[24]
Lszl Krasznahorkai became the rst author from
Hungary to receive the Man Booker award in 2015. The
prize was given to recognise his achievement in ction on the world stage. British author Marina Warner,

Daniel Medin
Ruth Padel
Nominees
Jos Eduardo Agualusa (Angola), Daniel Hahn
(translator), for A General Theory of Oblivion
Elena Ferrante (Italy), Ann Goldstein (translator),
for The Story of the Lost Child

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Orhan Pamuk (Turkey), Ekin Oklap (translator), for
A Strangeness in My Mind
Robert Seethaler (Austria), Charlotte Collins (translator), for A Whole Life

REFERENCES

[9] Michael Orthofer (8 July 2015). Man Booker Independent International Foreign Fiction Prize. complete review. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
[10] Albanian wins rst world Booker. BBC News. 2 June
2005. Retrieved 22 May 2011.

Yan Lianke (China), Carlos Rojas (translator), for

[11] Nigeria author wins Booker honour. BBC News. 13
The Four Books
June 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2011.

The nominees for the seventh Man Booker International [12] Flood, Alison (27 May 2009). Alice Munro wins Man
Booker International prize. The Guardian. Retrieved 22
Prize were announced on 14 April 2016.[29] The six nomMay 2011.
[28]
inees were chosen from a longlist of thirteen.

See also
The Man Booker Prize for Fiction
The Man Asian Literary Prize
The National Book Award
The Russian Booker Prize
The Prix Goncourt
The Neustadt International Prize for Literature
The Franz Kafka Prize

[13] E.L. Doctorow Among Nominees For International Book

Prize. Hungton Post. 18 March 2009. Retrieved 22
May 2011.
[14] Philip Roth wins the Man Booker International Prize.
BBC News. 18 May 2011. Retrieved 18 May 2011.
[15] Philip Roth win divided panel, Man Booker judge admits. BBC News. 29 June 2011. Retrieved 30 June
2011.
[16] Roberts, Laura (19 May 2011). Feminist judge resigns
after Philip Roth wins Man Booker International Prize.
The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
[17] Flood, Alison (18 May 2011). Judge withdraws over
Philip Roths Booker win. The Guardian. Retrieved 18
May 2011.

For a more comprehensive overview a list of literary

awards is available.

[18] Lea, Richard; Hill, Amelia (30 March 2011). Man

Booker Prize: Shortlist unveiled for the 'Olympics of literature'". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 May 2011.

[19] Ginnane, Virginia (30 March 2011). Le Carre cold on

book prize nomination. The Sydney Morning Herald.
Retrieved 22 May 2011.

References

[1] Readers debate world Booker prize. BBC News. 20

December 2004. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
[2] Crerar, Simon (27 May 2009). Alice Munro announced
as Man Booker International Prize winner. The Times.
Retrieved 22 May 2011.
[3] Spark heads world Booker nominees. BBC News. 18
February 2005. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
[4] Sarah Sha (7 July 2015). "'Reconguration' of Man
Booker International Prize. The Bookseller. Retrieved
8 July 2015.
[5] Atwood on World Booker shortlist. BBC News. 12
April 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2011.
[6] Callil, Carmen (21 May 2011). Why I quit the Man
Booker International panel. The Guardian. Retrieved
21 May 2011.
[7] Evolution of the Man Booker International Prize announced | The Man Booker Prizes. themanbookerprize.com. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
[8] Anderson, Hephzibah (31 May 2009). Alice Munro:
The mistress of all she surveys. The Guardian. Retrieved
28 May 2012.

[20] Stock, Jon (22 May 2013). Man Booker International

Prize 2013: Lydia Davis wins. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2013-05-22.
[21] Lydia Davis wins the Man Booker International Prize
2013. Man Brooker Prize. 22 May 2013. Retrieved
2013-05-22.
[22] Lea, Richard (24 January 2013). Man Booker International prize 2013 reveals shortlist. The Guardian. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
[23] Man Booker International Prize 2013 Finalists Announced. 24 January 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
[24] Hungarian Laszlo Krasznahorkai wins Man Booker International Prize. BBC News. May 20, 2015.
[25] Man Booker International prize 2015 won by 'visionary'
Lszl Krasznahorkai. The Guardian. 19 May 2015.
Retrieved 21 May 2015.
[26] The Man Booker International Prize 2015 Finalists List
Announced. The Man Booker Prizes. March 24, 2015.
Retrieved March 24, 2015.
[27] Han Kangs The Vegetarian wins Man Booker International Prize. BBC News. Retrieved 16 May 2016.

[28] Cain, Sian (14 April 2016). "'Exhilarating' Man Booker

International shortlist spans the world. The Guardian.
Retrieved 15 April 2016.
[29] Lusa, Agncia. Jos Eduardo Agualusa entre os nalistas
do Man Booker International Prize 2016. Observador (in
Portuguese). Retrieved 14 April 2016.

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