Man Booker International Prize

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15 of the world's most acclaimed authors, from 10 countries, have been short listed for the prestigious International Man Booker prize. Out of these only four of them do not write in English. They will be vying for the £60,000 trophy which is awarded every two years for a body of work rather than an individual
piece of fiction.

The 15 authors are: Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, John Banville, Peter Carey, Don DeLillo, Carlos Fuentes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan, Harry Mulisch, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Amos Oz, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and Michel Tournier. Lessing, aged 87, is the oldest and McEwan, 58, the youngest.

The judges are: Professor Elaine Showalter, academic and author; Nadine Gordimer, writer and novelist; and writer and academic, Colm Tóibin.

Ismail Kadaré won the inaugural Man Booker International Prize in 2005

Man Booker website: http://www.manbookerinternational.com/media/release.php?r=11#11