Here we have the shortlist of the coveted Man Booker International Prize 2013 that was announced at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2013, which is happening from 24-28 January at Diggi Palace, Jaipur. The finalists for the fifth Man Booker International Prize 2013 were announced on the first day of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival.
Ten finalists have been chosen by a team of five judges for the £60,000 award. The judging panel consists of scholar and literary critic, Sir Christopher Ricks, author and essayist, Elif Batuman, writer and broadcaster, Aminatta Forna, novelist Yiyun Li, and author and academic, Tim Parks. The winner of the prize will be announced in London on 22nd May 2013.
The ten finalists are
U.R. Ananthamurthy (India),
Aharon Appelfeld (Israel),
Lydia Davis (USA),
Intizar Husain (Pakistan),
Yan Lianke (China),
Marie NDiaye (France),
Josip Novakovich (Canada),
Marilynne Robinson (USA),
Vladimir Sorokin (Russia) and
Peter Stamm (Switzerland).
The Man Booker International Prize is awarded every two years to a living author who has published a substantial body of work either written or translated in English. Announcing the list, Chair of the judging panel, Christopher Ricks commented “Some of these men and women are in their eighties, the youngest in their forties and fifties. They write in ways that are astonishingly different.”
For this year’s prize, a total of 150 bodies of work were considered, from which the ten finalists were chosen. The Kannada language is represented this year with the inclusion of Indian writer, U.R. Ananthamurthy.
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