MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

The Man Booker International Prize recognizes one writer for his or her achievement in fiction. Worth £60,000, the prize is awarded every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is generally available in translation in the English language. The winner is chosen solely at the discretion of the judging panel and there are no submissions from publishers.

The Man Booker International Prize is significantly different from the annual Man Booker Prize for Fiction. In seeking out literary excellence, the judges consider a writer's body of work rather than a single novel.

The introduction of the International Prize was announced in June 2004. The award, which is sponsored by the Man Group, complements the Man Booker Prize.

Award winners

Year	Name	Country	Language(s)	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	United States	English	American literature
2013	Lydia Davis	United States	English	American literature

 

Lydia Davis wins the Man Booker International Prize 2013 

 Lydia Davis (born 1947) is a contemporary American writer noted for her short stories. Davis is also a novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, and has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including Proust's Swann’s Way and Flaubert's Madame Bovary. 

 Her translations led her to be named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. "Translating is often rather like doing an elaborate word puzzle (and I have always liked those)," she says. "But when the result can be one lovely sentence after another about the landscape of the walks around Combray or how Aunt Leonie manages her illness and her religious observances, then there is a great sense of satisfaction in the work."