Question: Who was recently awarded with the Man Booker International Prize of 2018?
(a) David Grossman
(b) Olga Tokarczuk
(c) Han Kang
(d) Jonathan Cape
Answer: (b)
Related Facts:
- On May 22, 2018, the Man Booker International Prize-2018 was awarded by the Man Booker Foundation in London (UK).
- For this year, this prize was awarded to the writer of ‘Flights’, Olga Tokarczuk (Polish).
- Olga is the first Polish writer to receive this award.
- The translator of this novel is Jennifer Croft.
- The author and the translator each received an amount of 25,000 pounds as prize money.
- It is known that this prize of 2017 was given to David Grossman (Israel), author of ‘A Horse Walks into a Bar’.
- Other novels selected for the Man Booker International Prize 2018
(i) Vernon Subutex 1 Writer – Virginice Despentes (France).
(ii) The White Book Writer Han Kang (South Korea)
(iii) ‘The World Goes On’ Writer-Laszlo Krasznnahorkai (Hungary).
(iv) ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad’ writer-Ahmed Saadvi (Iraq)
(v) “Like a Fadding Shadow” Author – Antonio Munoz Malina (Spain).
- This award was established in the year 2005.
- Until the year 2005-2015, this award was awarded to any living novelist for his overall achievement globally over every two years.
- From the year 2016, this award was started to be given annually to a novelist for the English translation of any novel, which was published in the UK.
- The Man Booker Foundation was established in the year 2002.
Reference:
http://themanbookerprize.com/international/news/flights-wins-man-booker-international-prize-2018