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THE MAN BOOKER
INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013
Finalists’ List Announced
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Ten writers are on the judges’ list of finalists under serious consideration for the fifth Man
Booker International Prize, the £60,000 award which recognises one writer for his or her
achievement in fiction.
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The authors come from nine countries with a Swiss writer included on the list for the
first time
Marilynne Robinson is the only writer to have appeared on a previous list of finalists,
in 2011
Marie NDiaye, at 45, is the youngest author ever to be a Man Booker International
nominee
Yan Lianke and Vladimir Sorokin have both had books banned in their home
countries of China and Russia
The Kannada language is represented with the inclusion of Indian writer, U.R.
Ananthamurthy
The finalists’ list is announced by the chair of judges, Sir Christopher Ricks, at a press
conference hosted at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival in India, today, Thursday 24
January, 2013.
The ten authors on the list 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)
- Peter Stamm (Switzerland)
The judging panel for the Man Booker International Prize 2013 consists of the scholar and
literary critic, Sir Christopher Ricks (Chair); author and essayist, Elif Batuman; writer and
broadcaster, Aminatta Forna; novelist, Yiyun Li and author and academic, Tim Parks.
Announcing the list, Christopher Ricks comments: ‘Each is the author of a substantial body
of published work, whether novels or short stories, either written in or translated into
English. 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.’
The Man Booker International Prize is awarded 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 winner is chosen solely at the discretion of the judging panel; there are no submissions
from publishers. Philip Roth won the prize in 2011, Alice Munro in 2009, Chinua Achebe in
2007 and Ismail Kadaré won the inaugural prize in 2005. In addition, there is a separate
award for translation and, if applicable, the winner may choose a translator of his or her
work into English to receive a prize of £15,000.
The Man Booker International Prize winner will be announced at the Victoria and Albert
Museum in London on 22 May.
The prize is sponsored by Man Group plc, which also sponsors the Man Booker Prize for
Fiction. The Man Booker International Prize is significantly different from the annual Man
Booker Prize in that it highlights one writer’s continued creativity, development and overall
contribution to fiction on the world stage. Both prizes strive to recognise and reward the
finest modern literature.
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there is a separate award for translation and, if applicable and in accordance with the rules of the
separate prize for translation, the winner may choose a translator of his or her work into English to
receive a prize of £15,000.
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readers from across India and the wider world: from America, Europe, Africa and from across the
breadth of South Asia, the brightest, most brilliant, funny, moving and remarkable authors come to
Jaipur every January. The Directors of festival are William Dalrymple and Namita Gokhale and the
2013 festival runs from 24th to 28th January.
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The Judges’ List of Finalists for the
2013 Man Booker International Prize
Please note that the following information is derived from secondary sources and should be checked for
accuracy.
U.R. Ananthamurthy
U.R. Ananthamurthy has just celebrated his 80th birthday, having been born in the village of Melige in Mysore
on December 21st 1932. He is one of the most important representatives of the “Navya” or “New Movement”
in the literature of the Kannada language, which is spoken by about 50 million people in India and elsewhere,
including in Mauritius, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.
Ananthamurthy grew up a “Gandhian socialist”. He read English literature at the University of Mysore and
earned his doctorate from the University of Birmingham, England, with a thesis entitled, “Politics and Fiction in
the 1930s”.
He has published five novels, one play, eight short-story collections, three collections of poetry and eight more
of essays, and his works have been translated into several Indian and European languages.
His work is known for its humanity and its courage in questioning cultural norms. Best known is his 1966
novel, Samskara, a story that asks: Can culture survive only if it is followed with blind fervour? Latest to be
honoured was his novel, Bharatipura, which was shortlisted for the 2011 Hindu Literary prize and for last
year’s DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Novelist and literary critic, Chandrahas Choudhury, writing in the
Wall Street Journal that same year, said that the power of Ananthamurthy’s fiction “resides in the way its
universal ideas are worked out through the frame of the local.”
Among his works of fiction are:
Samskara (1965, published in English in 1976)
Bharathipura (1973, published in English in 2010)
Bhava (1994, published in English in 1998)
Stallion of the Sun (1995, published in English 1998)
U.R. Ananthamurthy lives in Bangalore, India.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, India.
Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld is 80 years old. He was born on February 16th 1932 in a small town called Zhadova, near
Czernowitz, in what was then Romania and is now Ukraine.
In 1941, when he was eight years old, the Nazi-allied Romanian army invaded his hometown and his mother
was murdered. He was deported with his father to a German concentration camp, from which he escaped and
hid for three years, before joining the Soviet Army in which he worked as a cook. After the war he spent
several months in a displaced persons’ camp in Italy before emigrating to Palestine in 1946, two years before
Israel’s independence. Only in the 1950s did he realise that his father had survived the war. Their reunion,
after a separation of 20 years, was so emotional he has never been able to write about it.
He writes fiction in Hebrew, although he did not learn the language until he was in his teens. Most of his work
focuses on Jewish life in Europe before, during and after World War II, but it is not simple autobiography.
Silence, muteness and stuttering enforce his work, most notably Badenheim 1939, and disability is often a
source of strength. The precision and conciseness of the Hebrew language suit his clear and modernistic
style. Philip Roth, writing in the New York Times in 1988, described him as a “displaced writer of displaced
fiction, who has made displacement and disorientation a subject uniquely his own.”
Among his works of fiction are:
Badenheim 1939 (1978, published in English in 1980)
Until the Dawn’s Light (1995, published in English in 2011)
Blooms of Darkness (2006, published in English in 2010)
Aharon Appelfeld lives in Mevaseret Zion, a suburb of Jerusalem.
Publisher: Alma Books
Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis is an American writer who was born in Massachusetts in 1947 and is now a professor of creative
writing at the University at Albany, the capital of New York state.
She is best known for two contrasting accomplishments: translating from the French, to great acclaim, Marcel
Proust’s complex Du Côté de Chez Swann (Swann’s Way) and Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, and writing short
stories, a number of them among the shortest stories ever written. Much of her fiction may be seen under the
aspect of philosophy or poetry or short story, and even the longer creations may be as succinct as two or
three pages.
She has been described by the critic, James Wood in his latest collection, The Fun Stuff and Other Essays, as
“a tempestuous Thomas Bernhard”. Most of all, as Craig Morgan Teicher, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, wrote
in 2009, the year that Davis’s Collected Stories appeared as a single volume: She is “the master of a literary
form largely of her own invention.”
Among her works of fiction are:
The End of the Story (1995)
The Collected Stories (2009)
Lydia Davis lives in New York.
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Books.
Intizar Husain
Intizar Husain was born in India before partition in Uttar Pradesh, on December 7th 1923. He emigrated to
Pakistan in 1947 and lives in Lahore.
He gained a master’s degree in Urdu and another in English literature. The author of short stories and novels,
he has worked as a journalist and columnist for the Pakistan Times and the Urdu daily, Firoze. A chronicler of
change, Husain has written three novels and four collections of short stories that have all been translated into
English.
Naya Gar (The New House) paints a picture of Pakistan during the ten-year dictatorship of General Zia-ulHaq. Agay Sumandar Hai (Beyond is the Sea) contrasts the spiralling urban violence of contemporary Karachi
with a vision of the lost Islamic realm of al-Andalus, in modern Spain.
Basti, his 1979 novel, which traces the psychic history of Pakistan through the life of one man, Zakir, has just
been republished as one of the New York Review of Books Classics. Keki Daruwalla, writing in The Hindu in
2003, said “Intizar Husain’s stories often tread that twilight zone between fable and parable. And the narrative
is spun on an oriental loom.”
Among his works of fiction are:
Basti (1979, published in English in 2007)
The Seventh Door and Other Stories (published in English in 1997)
Circle and Other Stories (published in English in 2004)
Intizar Husain lives in Lahore, Pakistan.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, India.
Yan Lianke
The Chinese writer, Yan Lianke, lives in Beijing but says his heart belongs in central Henan province, where
he was born in 1958.
Over a 30-year career, he has not only been translated and honoured abroad, he has also won two of China’s
top literary awards, the Lu Xun Literary Prize and the Lao She Literary Award.
Born into a poor family, he began writing fiction at the same time as he joined the Chinese army at the age of
20. His first novel, called The Sun Goes Down in an unofficial English translation, was about two soldierheroes who destroy their reputations and the friendship between them when they blame each other for the
suicide of a young army cook.
To Serve the People, which might bring to mind D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, is about a young
woman who takes an older lover who can be aroused only when she smashes portraits and statues of
Chairman Mao. Dream of Ding Village exposes the AIDS blood-contamination in Henan province. Both books
were banned.
Dream of Ding Village was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Asia Literary Prize and the 2012 Independent
Foreign Fiction Award. Reviewing it for the Independent, Clarissa Sebag Montefiore described it as a “giddily
surreal and ultimately nihilistic depiction of a society.”
Among his works of fiction are:
Xia Ri Luo (2001, published in English in 2002)
To Serve the People (2005, published in English in 2008)
Dream of Ding Village (2005, published in English in 2011)
Lenin’s Kisses (2004, published in English in 2012)
Yan Lianke lives in Beijing, China.
Publisher: Constable and Robinson, London.
Marie NDiaye
Marie NDiaye, born on June 4th 1967, is a French novelist and playwright. Her father, who was Senegalese,
returned to Africa when she was a baby, and she was raised by her French mother, a secondary-school
science teacher, in a town called Pithiviers, south of Paris.
She began writing at the age of 12. Her first novel, Quant au Riche Avenir (Regarding the Rich Future) was
published when she was 18 by Jérôme Lindon, who had been Samuel Beckett’s great champion. Rosie Carpe
(2001) won the Prix Femina, and Papa Doit Manger (Daddy’s Got To Eat), a play she wrote ten years ago,
was only the second play by a woman to be taken into the repertoire of the Comédie Française.
Her most recent novel, translated into English as Three Strong Women and published in the summer of 2012,
won France’s most respected literary prize, the Prix Goncourt in 2009. Fernanda Eberstadt in the New York
Times described it as “the poised creation of a novelist unafraid to explore the extremes of human suffering”,
and said that NDiaye is “a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of
most people’s lives.”
Among her works of fiction are:
Among Family (1991, published in English in 1997)
Rosie Carpe (2001, published in English in 2004)
Three Strong Women (2009, published in English in 2012)
Marie NDiaye lives in Berlin.
Publisher: Maclehose Press.
Josip Novakovich
Josip Novakovich, a short-story writer, novelist and writer of narrative essays, was born in 1956 what is now
Croatia and grew up under the authoritarian rule of Marshal Tito near the Hungarian border in the central
Croatian town of Daruvar. He studied medicine in Serbia, and then moved to America, where his mother had
been born, and continued his studies, in psychology and then in creative writing, at Vassar College and at
Yale. He lives in Montreal, where he teaches creative writing at Concordia University, and he has recently
taken Canadian citizenship.
His three short-story collections, Yolk, Salvation and Other Disasters and Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust,
all contain work that is darkly comic. He is known in particular for his depiction of violence, and for his writing
about the Yugoslav war and its atrocities. His writing has been notably published in America, and Keith
Botsford in The Republic of Letters praised him for “an economy of style and narrative that all good readers
will relish.”
Among his works of fiction are:
Yolk (1995, published in English in 1996)
Salvation and Other Disasters (1995, published in English in 1998)
April Fools Day (2004, published in English in 2005)
Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust (2005, published in English the same year)
Josip Novakovich lives in Montreal, Canada.
Publisher: Harper / Duckworth.
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is an American novelist and essayist who lives and teaches in Iowa, and was born on
November 26th 1943. She has written three novels, each of them being immediately and highly acclaimed.
Housekeeping, which came out in 1980, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Gilead, her second novel, won the
Pultizer. Her latest work, Home, won the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction.
She was raised as a Presbyterian and describes herself as a liberal Protestant. Her interest in the ideas of the
16th-century French theologian and pastor, John Calvin, permeates her writing. Set in the 1950s, Gilead
features a Protestant minister named John Ames, who – aware of his imminent demise – writes a long letter
to his seven-year-old son, which is presented as a series of diary entries: homilies about home, religious
exercise and naturalism.
Writing of Gilead in the Sunday Telegraph, Jane Shilling said, “The cadences of Robinson’s prose have a
resonant authority more like that of great music than language.”
Among her works of fiction are:
Housekeeping (1980)
Gilead (2004)
Home (2008)
Marilynne Robinson lives in Iowa City, USA.
Publisher: Virago.
Vladimir Sorokin
Vladimir Sorokin, who was born on August 7th 1955, is a post-modern Russian storyteller and dramatist and
one of the most popular writers in contemporary Russian literature, famous for The Ice Trilogy.
Having grown up in Moscow, he studied at the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas and graduated as an engineer.
He moved into illustrating books, and his development as a writer took place among the artists and writers of
the Moscow underground scene of the 1980s. His early works were banned during the Soviet period, but in
2001 he won the Russian Booker prize.
His work has been translated into about 20 languages. His best known book in English is Days of the
Oprichnik, which is set in Moscow in 2028, when the city has been sealed off from Europe by a Great Wall
and is ruled by a latterday Ivan the Terrible, who is protected by “oprichniki”, the black-clad secret police
whose main job is eliminating Ivan’s enemies. A workaday tale of rape, arson and murder, it was described by
Stephen Kotkin in the New York Times Book Review as coming “across almost as extended performance art
in its evocative rituals and bizarreness.”
Among his works of fiction are:
The Ice Trilogy (2006, published in English in 2011), comprising:
Ice (2002)
Bro (2004)
23,000 (2005)
Day of the Oprichnik (2006, published in English in 2011)
Vladimir Sorokin lives in Moscow.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Peter Stamm
Peter Stamm is a Swiss novelist, short-story writer and radio dramatist, who prefers to write in German rather
than in his native Schweizerdeutsch, which he speaks at home. He has just turned 50, having been born on
January 18th 1963. Like his father, he studied accountancy and worked for five years as an accountant. And
although he has long since left that world, his characters, the New York Times once noted, “often act and
think like book-keepers, calculating their experiences in terms of ratios and costs, gains and losses.”
His cool and sparse writing style has been translated into English by Michael Hofmann. His best-known books
are Unformed Landscape and, more recently, Seven Years.
“Peter Stamm’s talent is palpable,” said the reviewer, Sarah Fay, in the New York Times. “But what makes
him a writer to read, and read often, is the way he renders contemporary life as a series of ruptures. Never
entirely sure of their position, his characters engage in a constant effort to establish their equilibrium.”
Among his works of fiction are:
On a Day Like This (2006, published in English in 2008)
Unformed landscape (2001, published in English in 2005)
We’re Flying (2008, published in English in 2012)
Seven Years (2009, published in English in 2011)
Peter Stamm lives in Winterthur, Switzerland.
Publisher: Granta
The Judges
Sir Christopher Ricks (Chair)
Sir Christopher Ricks is Warren Professor of the Humanities and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at
Boston University, having formerly been professor of English at the University of Bristol and at Cambridge. He
was the Professor of Poetry at Oxford, 2004-09. A member of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and
Writers, he was its president, 2007-08. Whereas most of his work as a critic and editor has been devoted to
poetry (Milton, Tennyson, Keats, T.S. Eliot, Bob Dylan, The Oxford Book of English Verse and most recently
The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse), Sir Christopher has also turned his attention to fiction in his book,
Beckett’s Dying Words; in editing Samuel Beckett’s The Expelled / The Calmative / The End / First Love and
Henry James’s What Maisie Knew; and in a collection of his essays on the novel from Jane Austen, Charles
Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and Henry James, through to Ernest Hemingway, Ivy ComptonBurnett, Christina Stead, Brian Moore, Kingsley Amis, V.S. Naipaul and Ian McEwan. A frequent contributor
to the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement, Sir Christopher has reviewed fiction
from France, Germany, Italy, Israel, Canada and South Africa.
Elif Batuman
Elif Batuman was born in New York and lives in Istanbul, where she is writer-in-residence at Koç University.
She has been a regular contributor to the New Yorker since 2006, and holds a PhD in comparative literature
from Stanford University. Her first book, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who
Read Them (2010), was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award and a runner-up for a PEN/
Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award. It was also longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Her essays, articles
and criticism have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, the London
Review of Books, the Guardian, Harper’s and n+1.
Aminatta Forna
Aminatta Forna is a writer. She was born in Scotland, raised in Sierra Leone and spent periods of her
childhood in Zambia, Iran and Thailand. She holds dual British and Sierra Leonian nationality. Her most recent
novel, The Memory of Love, was winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award 2011 and
shortlisted for the Orange Prize and Warwick Prize. The Devil that Danced on the Water, a memoir of her
dissident father and Sierra Leone was shortlisted for the 2003 Samuel Johnson Prize and her first novel,
Ancestor Stones, was winner of the 2007 German Liberaturpreis, the Hurston Wright Legacy Award for Debut
Fiction 2007 and the Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize 2010 in the US. A short story, ‘Hayward’s Heath’ was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2010.
Between 1989 and 1999 Ms Forna worked for BBC Television as a reporter and film maker in the spheres of
art and politics, including on The Late Show. She has filmed a number of documentaries in Africa: Through
African Eyes, the series Africa Unmasked and most recently The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu. She is a regular
guest and occasional host of BBC Radio’s Open Book and Saturday Review and other BBC radio arts
programmes.
Ms Forna sits on the Advisory Board of the Caine Prize for African Writing and the Royal Literary Fund. She is
currently Sterling Brown Visiting Professor of African Literature at Williams College, Massachusetts.
Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li grew up in Beijing and emigrated to the United States after university to study medical science. She
started writing in English, her second language, in her late twenties, and has since published three books to
critical acclaim. Her debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, won the Frank O'Connor
International Short Story Award, the Guardian First Book Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, among others.
Her novel, The Vagrants, was shortlisted for IMPAC Dublin Award. Her recent collection, Gold Boy, Emerald
Girl, was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and was a finalist of the Story
Prize. She was selected by Granta as one of the 21 Best Young American Novelists under 35, and was
named by the New Yorker as one of the top 20 US writers under 40. The MacArthur Foundation named her a
2010 fellow.
Tim Parks
Born in Manchester in 1954, Tim Parks studied at Cambridge and Harvard before moving permanently to Italy
in 1981. Author of three bestselling books on Italy, and fourteen novels, including the Booker short-listed
Europa, he has translated works by Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino, Roberto Calasso and, most recently,
Niccolò Machiavelli. In addition to running a post-graduate degree course in translation at IULM University,
Milan, he writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books. His non-fiction
works include Translating Style, a literary approach to translation problems, Medici Money, an account of the
relation between banking, the Church and art in the 15th century, and, most recently, Teach Us to Sit Still,
which was described by David Lodge as: “A searingly honest, viscerally vivid, darkly comic self-examination of
the connections between writing, personality and health”.
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