Man Booker International Prize Finalists Announced

Posted on February 18, 2005

Eighteen authors have been selected for the Man Booker Prize, which carries a large 60,000 pound prize. The authors on the list are: Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gunter Grass, Ismail Kadare, Milan Kundera, Stanislaw Lem, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan, Naguib Mahfouz, Tomas Eloy Martinez, Kenzaburo Oe, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, Antonio Tabucchi, John Updike and A.B. Yehoshua.

The Man Booker International Prize was announced in June 2004 and will recognize one writer for his or her achievement in fiction. The prize will be awarded once every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is generally available in translation in the English language. The first winner of The Man Booker International Prize 2005 will be announced in June in London and the prize will be awarded at a dinner later that month.

The prize is sponsored by the Man Group, which also sponsors the Man Booker Prize for Fiction.