The Man Booker International Prize is awarded to an author every two years for the purpose of “highlight[ing] one writer’s continued creativity, development and overall contribution to fiction on the world stage.”The list of "Contenders" for this year’s Prize has just been announced:
- Peter Carey (Australia)
- Evan S. Connell (USA)
- Mahasweta Devi (India)
- E.L. Doctorow (USA)
- James Kelman (UK)
- Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
- Arnošt Lustig (Czechoslovakia)
- Alice Munro (Canada)
- V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad/India)
- Joyce Carol Oates (USA)
- Antonio Tabucchi (Italy)
- Ngugi Wa Thiong’O (Kenya)
- Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia)
- Ludmila Ulitskaya (Russia)
Interestingly, the US is the only country with more than one “Contender.” The winner will be announced in May.
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I admire Evan Connell's book from some time ago on Custer and the Northern Plains Amerindians, Son of the Morning Star.
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