The Man Booker International Prize

Books

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