The Man Booker International Prize

June 2, 2005: Albanian author, Ismail Kadare was named winner of the 2005 Man Booker International Prize.

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The contenders for the new Man Booker International Prize 2005 were announced February 18, 2005. From 13 different countries, the list of authors includes five Nobel Laureates and two winners of the regular ole Man Booker Prize.

The Man Booker International Prize is open to writers of any nationality who write in English or whose works are found widely in translation. The £60,000 prize is awarded based an author's body of work rather than a single book.

The winner of the Man Booker International Prize will be announced in London in mid 2005. The eighteen 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

A.B. Yehoshua