Hello Gentle Reader
Numerous literary awards do their best to rival other literary awards. The highest literary award to rival is that of the Nobel Prize for Literature – the eccentric and secretive award is often rivaled, by other such awards. The biannual Neustadt International Prize for Literature is one such award that competes with the Nobel Prize for Literature. Following in the Neustadt’s prize footsteps, is the Man Booker International Prize; another award, awarded on a biannual basis, and hopes to rival the Nobel Prize for Literature. The last few years were dominated by repeat wins of two American writers: Lydia Davis and Philip Roth. The prize found itself, heading towards stagnation, with numerous well known writes already, awarded the prize (Ismail Kadare, Alice Munro, and Chinua Achebe) – but it appears that, this year’s prize has opened its eyes up to more translated authors, to create a rather interesting list. Note many recognizable authors are not included on the list such as: Haruki Murakami and Karl Ove Knausgaard.
The Shortlist for this year’s Man Booker International Prize is as follows –
László Krasznahorkai (Hungary)
César Aira (Argentina)
Mia Couto (Mozambique)
Hoda Barakat (Lebanon)
Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe)
Ibrahim Al-Koni (Libya)
Alain Mabanckou (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Marlene van Niekerk (South Africa)
Amitav Ghosh (India)
Fanny Howe (United States of America)
Good luck to each of the authors!
Folio Prize Winner –
Akhil Sharma the Indian-American writer, has won this years Booker Prize rival the Folio Prize for his novel “Family Life,” his second book which took him thirteen years to write, and is currently a bestseller in the States. Sharma was happy to have won the prize, despite how long the novel took to be produced.
Congratulations Akhil Sharma!
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