U.S. novelist Philip Roth won the Man Booker International Prize. He beat 12 other potential winners announced at the event Sydney Writers' Festival on Wednesday (18/05/2011).
Previously, Roth has several times been nominated as the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. In 1998, his novel 'American Pastoral' get a Pulitzer Prize. One of his novels that have been filmed is the 'Human Stain' (2003).
Man Booker is an award for fiction writers worldwide who write in English. There are two types of awards, the Man Booker Prize which assess one's work from a writer, and the Man Booker International which ranked based on the overall work of a novelist who has written.
Man Booker International held once every two years, and this time Roth got rid of its competitors, such as children's writer Philip Pullman of England, Chinese writers Su Tong, author of America Anne Tyler and Marilynne Robinson, and the Australian writer David Malouf.
The author of the world has ever won this award, among others, Chinua Achebe of Nigeria, Ismail Kadare (Albania) and the Canadian short story writer Alice Munro. This award prize money of 60 thousand pounds.
When announced, the jury chairman Rick Gekoski said Roth who has been writing for 50 years has been "moved, influence, and entertain a lot of people" through her books.
Roth has written about the life of the Jewish people, but he will not just be judged successful "reshape our ideas about Jewish identity." More than that, Roth is successfully creating fiction in new ways, not just America but the world of fiction.
Roth's novel was first published in 1959, entitled "Goodbye, Columbus', and throughout his career has written 31 novels. His latest work entitled 'Nemesis' (2010).
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