MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE

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 named in London on June 2, 2005, and received the award and £60,000 at a ceremony in Edinburgh on June 27.

Contents

Winners

2005

2007

See also

External links

Winners

2005

★ Ismail Kadare
;Judging panel

★ John Carey (chairperson)

★ Alberto Manguel

★ Azar Nafisi
;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

2007

★ Chinua Achebe
;Judging panel

★ Elaine Showalter

★ Nadine Gordimer

★ Colm Tóibin
;Nominees
The following nominees for the second Man Booker International Prize were announced on April 12, 2007 at Massey College in Toronto:

★ Chinua Achebe

★ Margaret Atwood

★ John Banville

★ Peter Carey

★ Don DeLillo

★ Carlos Fuentes

★ Doris Lessing

★ Ian McEwan

★ Harry Mulisch

★ Alice Munro

★ Michael Ondaatje

★ Amos Oz

★ Philip Roth

★ Salman Rushdie

★ Michel Tournier

See also

★ The Man Booker Prize for Fiction

★ The National Book Award

★ The Prix Goncourt

External links

★ Official website of the Man Booker International Prize

★ BBC report on the 2005 winner