Man Booker International Prize

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The Man Booker International Prize is a biennial international literary award given to a living author of any nationality for fiction published in English or generally available in English translation.

The award, sponsored by the Man Group plc and established in 2005 to complement the Man Booker Prize, rewards one writer's overall achievement in literature and their significant influence on writers and readers worldwide. The award is therefore a recognition of the writer's body of work, rather than any one title.

The inaugural winner, Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, was announced in London on June 2, 2005, and has received the award and £60,000 at a ceremony in Edinburgh on June 27.

Contents 1 Winners 1.1 2007 1.1.1 Judging panel 1.2 2005 1.2.1 Judging panel 1.2.2 Nominees 2 See also 3 External links

[edit] Winners

[edit] 2007

[edit] Judging panel

• Elaine Showalter
• Nadine Gordimer
• Colm Tóibin

[edit] 2005

• Ismail Kadare

[edit] Judging panel

• John Carey (chairperson)
• Alberto Manguel
• Azar Nafisi

[edit] Nominees

The following nominees for the inaugural Man Booker International Prize were announced on June 2, 2005 at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.:

• Margaret Atwood
• Saul Bellow
• Gabriel García Márquez
• Günter Grass
• Ismail Kadare
• Milan Kundera
• Stanisław Lem
• Doris Lessing
• Ian McEwan
• Naguib Mahfouz
• Tomas Eloy Martinez
• Kenzaburo Oe
• Cynthia Ozick
• Philip Roth
• Muriel Spark
• Antonio Tabucchi
• John Updike
• A.B. Yehoshua

[edit] See also

• The Man Booker Prize for Fiction
• The National Book Award
• The Prix Goncourt

[edit] External links

• Official website of the Man Booker International Prize
• BBC report on the 2005 winner