Man Booker International Prize

[monroe at mpm.edu]

Literary life
(Filed: 01/02/2005)

Mark Sanderson peers into the world of books

The winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize will be announced
later this year (a shortlist drawn up by the three judges, Professor John
Carey, the academic Azar Nafisi and the author Alberto Manguel, will be
released soon). The £60,000 award is designed to celebrate a writer's
"continued creativity, development and overall contribution to fiction on
the world stage". In the meantime readers across the globe have been
nominating who they think should win on the website
www.manbookerinternational.com. 

The suggested names range from the obscure to all the too obvious: from Rupa
Bawa, Latife Tekin and Orly Castel Blum to Clive Barker, Ruth Rendell and
J.K. Rowling. Kazuo Ishiguro, for example, whose novel The Remains of the
Day won the Booker Prize in 1989, has attracted eulogies from Zimbabwe,
Indonesia, Germany, Belgium and India. Jane Gardam, according to a British
reader, is "Britain's best-kept secret in the book-prize world". An American
fan of Thomas Pynchon dubs him "the greatest living author writing in
English".

Finally, Nadine Gordimer, whose novel, The Conservationist won the Booker
Prize in 1974 (along with Stanley Middleton's Holiday) has convinced Mr Joe
Napolitano that "she understands the human condition more clearly - and more
deeply - than any other living writer".

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