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21/02/2005
Man Booker International Finalists announced
Nobel prize winners Saul Bellow, Gunter Grass and Gabriel Garcia Marquez are among the finalists announced for the first ever Man International Booker Prize.
The prize is a lifetime achievement award worth around $115,000.
The finalists were announced on Friday and include Kenzaburo Oe, of Japan; Americans Philip Roth, John Updike and Cynthia Ozick; Canada's Margaret Atwood; Britain's Ian McEwan; and Egypt's Naguib Mahfouz.
Also included are Ismail Kadare, Milan Kundera, Stanislaw Lem, Doris Lessing, Tomas Eloy Martinez, Muriel Spark, Antonio Tabucchi and A.B. Yehoshua.
The winner will be announced in June. The prize is to be 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."
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