The Man Booker International Prize

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The Man Booker International Prize is a prize given out biannually to a writer who has contributed to fiction in a major way. Typically it is awarded to an author with a large catalogue of quality fiction. It is not limited to just novelists, writers of short stories are also entered, though I believe it is mainly novelists who win. Also it is required the nominees write or have been translated in English.

The short-list for this 2013's prize is as follows:

• U R Ananthamurthy
• Born December 21st 1932
• India
• Best known for the novel Samskara (1966) about culture and cultural survival
• Portfolio consists of 5 novels, 1 play, eight short-story collections, 3 poetry collections, and 8 essay collections
• Aharon Applefeld
• Born February 16th 1932
• Ukraine
• Best known for Badenheim, 1939 (1997) about disability
• Described as a 'displaced writer of displaced fiction, who has made displacement and disorientation a subject uniquely his own.' (New York Times, 1988)
• Lydia Davis
• Born 1947
• USA


• Best known for her translations of French novels such as Marcel Proust's Du Côté de Chez Swann (Swann's Way), a complex tale with much critical acclaim
• Also famous for her short stories many of which are very short and based on philosophy
• Intizar Husain
• Born December 7th 1923
• Pakistan
• Best known for Naya Gar
• Has written 3 novels and 4 collections of short stories
• Yan Lianke
• Born 1958
• China
• Best known for Dream of Ding village
• That book was banned in China
• Marie NDiaye
• Born June 4th 1967
• French (originally from Africa)
• Most recent novel: Three Strong Women
• First published when she was 18
• Josip Novakovich
• Born 1956
• Born in Croatia, now lives in Montreal
• Famous for his short story colections such as Yolk
• Writes short stories, novels, and narrative essays
• Marilynne Robinson
• Born November 1943
• USA
• Best known for Housekeeping
• Received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington 1977
• Vladmit Sorokin
• Born August 7th 1955
• Russia
• Famous for The Ice Trilogy
• Best known book is Day of the Oprichnik
• Peter Stamm
• Born January 18th 1963
• Switzerland
• Best known for unformed Landscape
• He studied accountancy and worked as an accountant for five years

Thanks

Matt B