The Man Booker International Prize is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom. The introduction of the International Prize to complement the Man Booker Prize was announced in June 2004. Sponsored by the Man Group, from 2005 until 2015 the award was given every two years to a living author of any nationality for a body of work published in English or generally available in English translation. It rewarded one author's "continued creativity, development and overall contribution to fiction on the world stage", and was a recognition of the writer's body of work rather than any one title. The judges for the year compiled their own lists of authors, and submissions were not invited.
Since 2016, the award has been given annually to a single book in English translation, with a £50,000 prize for the winning title, shared equally between author and translator.
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Prizes
Pre-2016
Whereas the Man Booker Prize was open only to writers from the Commonwealth, Ireland and Zimbabwe, the International Prize was open to all nationalities. The award was worth £60,000 and an author could win only once. The Man Booker International prize also allowed for a separate award for translation. The winning author could choose a translator of his or her work into English to receive a prize sum of £15,000.
Post-2016
On 7 July 2015, the Booker Prize Foundation announced that from 2016 onwards the Man Booker International Prize was to be a prize for fiction in translation. Its aim is to encourage publishing and reading of quality works in translation and to highlight the work of translators. The award is now given annually to a book in English translation, with a £50,000 prize for the winning title, to be shared equally between author and translator. Each shortlisted author and translator receives £1,000. This brings the total prize fund to £62,000 per year, compared to the previous £37,500 for the Man Booker International Prize. Judges select a longlist of 12 or 13 books in March, followed by a shortlist of six in April, with the winner announced in May.
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History
The inaugural winner was Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. He was followed by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe in 2007, and two years later the Canadian writer Alice Munro won the award. In 2011 the prize was awarded to American Philip Roth. Praising its concerted judgement, the journalist Hephzibah Anderson noted that the Man Booker International Prize was "fast becoming the more significant award, appearing an ever more competent alternative to the Nobel".
In 2015 it was announced that the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize would be disbanded. The prize money from that award would be folded into the Man Booker International Prize, and the latter would become what the Independent prize used to be: a yearly book award for English translations, with the prize split between author and translator.
Award winners
Nominations
2005
- Winner
- Ismail Kadare
Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare was named the inaugural International Prize winner in 2005. Head judge, Professor John Carey said Kadare is "a universal writer in the tradition of storytelling that goes back to Homer." Kadare said he was "deeply honoured" at being awarded the prize. Kadare was also able to select a translator to receive an additional prize of £15,000. The writer received his award in Edinburgh on 27 June.
- Judging panel
- John Carey (Chair)
- Alberto Manguel
- Azar Nafisi
- Nominees
The nominees for the inaugural Man Booker International Prize were announced on 2 June 2005 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
2007
- Winner
- Chinua Achebe
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe was awarded the International Prize for his literary career in 2007. Judge Nadine Gordimer said Achebe was "the father of modern African literature" and that he was "integral" to world literature. Achebe received his award on 28 June in Oxford.
- Judging panel
- Elaine Showalter
- Nadine Gordimer
- Colm Tóibin
- Nominees
The nominees for the second Man Booker International Prize were announced on 12 April 2007 at Massey College in Toronto.
2009
- Winner
- Alice Munro
Canadian short story writer Munro was named the winner of the prize in 2009 for her lifetime body of work. Judge Jane Smiley said picking a winner had been "a challenge", but Munro had won the panel over. On Munro's work, Smiley said "Her work is practically perfect. Any writer has to gawk when reading her because her work is very subtle and precise. Her thoughtfulness about every subject is so concentrated." Munro, who said she was "totally amazed and delighted" at her win, received the award at Trinity College, Dublin on 25 June.
- Judging panel
- Jane Smiley (Chair)
- Amit Chaudhuri
- Andrey Kurkov
- Nominees
The nominees for the third Man Booker International Prize were announced on 18 March 2009 at The New York Public Library.
2011
- Winner
- Philip Roth
American novelist Roth was announced as the winner on 18 May 2011 at the Sydney Writers' Festival. Of his win, Roth said "This is a great honour and I'm delighted to receive it." The writer said he hoped the prize would bring him to the attention of readers around the world who are not currently familiar with his body of work. Roth received his award in London on 28 June; however, he was unable to attend in person due to ill health, so he sent a short video instead.
- Judging panel
- Rick Gekoski (Chair)
- Carmen Callil (withdrew in protest over choice of winner)
- Justin Cartwright
After Roth was announced as the winner, Carmen Callil withdrew from the judging panel, saying "I don't rate him as a writer at all... in 20 years' time will anyone read him?" Callil later wrote an editorial in The Guardian explaining her position and why she chose to leave the panel.
- Nominees
The nominees for the fourth Man Booker International Prize were announced on 30 March 2011 at a ceremony in Sydney, Australia. John le Carré asked to be removed from consideration, saying he was "flattered", but that he does not compete for literary prizes. However, judge Dr Rick Gekoski said although he was disappointed that le Carré wanted to withdraw, his name would remain on the list.
2013
- Winner
- Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis, best known as a short story writer, was announced as the winner of the 2013 prize on 22 May at a ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The official announcement of Davis' award on the Man Booker Prize website described her work as having "the brevity and precision of poetry." Judging panel chair Christopher Ricks commented that "There is vigilance to her stories, and great imaginative attention. Vigilance as how to realise things down to the very word or syllable; vigilance as to everybody's impure motives and illusions of feeling."
- Judging Panel
- Christopher Ricks (Chair)
- Elif Batuman
- Aminatta Forna
- Yiyun Li
- Tim Parks
- Nominees
The nominees for the fifth Man Booker International Prize were announced on 24 January 2013. Marilynne Robinson was the only writer out of the ten nominees who had been nominated for the prize before.
2015
- Winner
- László Krasznahorkai
László Krasznahorkai became the first author from Hungary to receive the Man Booker award in 2015. The prize was given to recognise his "achievement in fiction on the world stage". British author Marina Warner, who chaired the panel of judges that selected Krasznahorkai for the award, compared his writing to Kafka and Beckett. Krasznahorkai's translators, George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet, shared the £15,000 translators' prize.
- Judging Panel
- Marina Warner (Chair)
- Nadeem Aslam
- Elleke Boehmer
- Edwin Frank
- Wen-chin Ouyang
- Nominees
The nominees for the sixth Man Booker International Prize were announced on 24 March 2015.
2016
- Winner
- Han Kang (South Korea), Deborah Smith (translator), for The Vegetarian
Han became the first Korean author to win the prize and, under the new format for 2016, Smith became the first translator to share the prize. British journalist Boyd Tonkin, who chaired the judging panel, said that the decision was unanimous. He also said of the book "in a style both lyrical and lacerating, it reveals the impact of this great refusal both on the heroine herself and on those around her. This compact, exquisite and disturbing book will linger long in the minds, and maybe the dreams, of its readers."
- Judging Panel
- Boyd Tonkin (Chair)
- Tahmima Anam
- David Bellos
- Daniel Medin
- Ruth Padel
- Nominees (shortlist)
- José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola), Daniel Hahn (translator), for A General Theory of Oblivion
- Elena Ferrante (Italy), Ann Goldstein (translator), for The Story of the Lost Child
- Yan Lianke (China), Carlos Rojas (translator), for The Four Books
- Orhan Pamuk (Turkey), Ekin Oklap (translator), for A Strangeness in My Mind
- Robert Seethaler (Austria), Charlotte Collins (translator), for A Whole Life
- Nominees (longlist)
- Maylis de Kerangal (France), Jessica Moore (translator), for Mend the Living
- Eka Kurniawan (Indonesia), Labodalih Sembiring (translator), for Man Tiger
- Fiston Mwanza Mujila (Democratic Republic of Congo), Roland Glasser (translator), for Tram 83
- Raduan Nassar (Brazil), Stefan Tobler (translator), for A Cup of Rage
- Marie NDiaye (France), Jordan Stump (translator), for Ladivine
- Kenzabur? ?e (Japan), Deborah Boliver Boehm (translator), for Death by Water
- Aki Ollikainen (Finland), Emily Jeremiah & Fleur Jeremiah (translator), for White Hunger
The nominees for the seventh Man Booker International Prize were announced on 14 April 2016. The six nominees were chosen from a longlist of thirteen.
2017
- Winner
- David Grossman (Israel), Jessica Cohen (translator), for A Horse Walks Into a Bar
Grossman became the first Israeli author to win the prize, sharing the £50,000 award with Cohen. The chair of the judging panel, Nick Barley, who is the director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, described the book as "an ambitious high-wire act of a novel [that] shines a spotlight on the effects of grief, without any hint of sentimentality. The central character is challenging and flawed, but completely compelling." The novel won over 126 other contenders.
- Judging Panel
- Nick Barley (Chair)
- Daniel Hahn
- Helen Mort
- Elif Shafak
- Chika Unigwe
- Nominees (shortlist)
- Mathias Énard (France), Charlotte Mandell (translator), for Compass
- David Grossman (Israel), Jessica Cohen (translator), for A Horse Walks Into a Bar
- Roy Jacobsen (Norway), Don Bartlett and Don Shaw (translators), for The Unseen
- Dorthe Nors (Denmark), Misha Hoekstra (translator), for Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
- Amos Oz (Israel), Nicholas de Lange (translator), for Judas
- Samanta Schweblin (Argentina), Megan McDowell (translator), for Fever Dream
- Nominees (longlist)
- Wioletta Greg (Poland), Eliza Marciniak (translator), for Swallowing Mercury
- Stefan Hertmans (Belgium), David McKay (translator), for War and Turpentine
- Ismail Kadare (Albania), John Hodgson (translator), for The Traitor's Niche
- Jón Kalman Stefánsson (Iceland), Phil Roughton (translator), for Fish Have No Feet
- Yan Lianke (China), Carlos Rojas (translator), for The Explosion Chronicles
- Alain Mabanckou (France), Helen Stevenson (translator), for Black Moses
- Clemens Meyer (Germany), Katy Derbyshire (translator), for Bricks and Mortar
The longlist for the eighth Man Booker International Prize was announced on 14 March 2017, and the shortlist on 20 April 2017. The winner was announced on 14 June 2017.
2018
- Winner
- Olga Tokarczuk (Poland), Jennifer Croft (translator), for Flights (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
Tokarczuk is the first Polish author to win the award, and shared the prize with Croft. Lisa Appignanesi, the chair of the judging panel, described Tokarczuk as a "writer of wonderful wit, imagination, and literary panache."
- Judging Panel
- Lisa Appignanesi, (Chair)
- Michael Hofmann
- Hari Kunzru
- Tim Martin
- Helen Oyeyemi
- Nominees (shortlist)
The shortlist of six books was announced on 12 April 2018 at an event at Somerset House in London.
- Virginie Despentes (France), Frank Wynne (translator), for Vernon Subutex 1 (MacLehose Press)
- Han Kang (South Korea), Deborah Smith (translator), for The White Book (Portobello Books)
- László Krasznahorkai (Hungary), John Batki, Ottilie Mulzet & George Szirtes (translators), for The World Goes On (Tuskar Rock Press)
- Antonio Muñoz Molina (Spain), Camilo A. Ramirez (translator), for Like a Fading Shadow (Tuskar Rock Press)
- Ahmed Saadawi (Iraq), Jonathan Wright (translator), for Frankenstein in Baghdad (Oneworld)
- Olga Tokarczuk (Poland), Jennifer Croft (translator), for Flights (Fitzcarraldo Editions)
- Nominees (longlist)
- Laurent Binet (France), Sam Taylor (translator) for The 7th Function of Language (Harvill Secker)
- Javier Cercas (Spain), Frank Wynne (translator), for The Impostor (MacLehose Press)
- Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany), Susan Bernofsky (translator), for Go, Went, Gone (Portobello Books)
- Ariana Harwicz (Argentina), Sarah Moses & Carolina Orloff (translators), for Die, My Love (Charco Press)
- Christoph Ransmayr (Austria), Simon Pare (translator), for The Flying Mountain (Seagull Books)
- Wu Ming-Yi (Taiwan), Darryl Sterk (translator), for The Stolen Bicycle (Text Publishing)
- Gabriela Ybarra (Spain), Natasha Wimmer (translator), for The Dinner Guest (Harvill Secker)
The longlist for the ninth Man Booker International Prize was announced on 12 March 2018. The winner was announced on 22 May 2018 at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
See also
- Man Booker Prize for Fiction
- Man Asian Literary Prize
- National Book Award
- Russian Booker Prize
- Prix Goncourt
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature
- Franz Kafka Prize
- List of literary awards
References
External links
- Official website
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