Man Booker International Prize - facts and figures
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This
award is given in recognition to achievement in fiction.
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The
prize money is 60,000 pounds.
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It
is a biennial award given to a living author for their contribution to fiction
in English or works that are available in translation in English language.
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Man
Group plc sponsors the entire award.
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This
prize is different as it showcases a writers overall contributions to fiction.
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The
judges give their judgement based on the writer’s body of work rather than on
single novel.
Man Booker
International Prize 2015
Prestigious Man Booker International Prize
for the year 2015 has been won by author Laszlo Krasznahorkai of Hungary. He
was chosen from 10 contenders all over the world. He was awarded at a ceremony
that took place in London. Mr. Krasznahorkai’s novels are complex in nature
where a single sentence would extend to a page. They deal with dystopian and
apocalyptic themes where a forthcoming civilisational crisis threatens the world.
His novels include:
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Satantango [1985]
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The Melancholy of
Resistance
[1989]
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Seiobo Down Below [2008]
Winners of Man Booker
International Prize:-
Year
|
Name
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Country
|
Language(s)
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Literary Tradition
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2005
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Ismail Kadare
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Albania
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Albanian
|
Albanian Lit
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2007
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Chinua
Achebe
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Nigeria
|
English
|
Nigerian
Lit
|
2009
|
Alice Munro
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Canada
|
English
|
Canadian Lit
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2011
|
Philip
Roth
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USA
|
English
|
American
Lit
|
2013
|
Lydia Davis
|
USA
|
English
|
American Lit
|
2015
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Laszlo
Krasznahorkai
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Hungary
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Hungarian
|
Hungarian
Lit
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