Ten writers, including a first-time entry from the tiny French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, have been nominated as finalists for the 2015 Man Booker International prize for fiction writing.
This is a most interesting and enlightening list of finalists. It brings attention to writers from far and wide, so many of whom are in translation.
- Jonathan Taylor, Chair of the Booker Prize Foundation
The finalists were announced at the University of Cape Town, where Nobel literature winner and two-time Booker winner JM Coetzee teaches.
The 2015 Man Booker winner will be announced in London on 19 May.
And the Finalists are...
César Aira from Argentina
Hoda Barakat from Lebanon
Maryse Condé from Guadeloupe
Mia Couto from Mozambique
Amitav Ghosh from India
Fanny Howe from the United States of America
Ibrahim al-Koni from Libya
László Krasznahorkai from Hungary
Alain Mabanckou from Republic of Congo
Marlene van Niekerk from South Africa
The coveted 60,000 pound 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.
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