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Yan Lianke from China? Or Han Kang from South Korea? International Man Booker Prize to be decided tomorrow

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Article
http://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/1944565/yan-lianke-china-or-han-kang-south-korea-international-man-booker
Journal
South China Morning Post
Issued Date
May 15, 2016
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Language
English(English)
Country
HONG KONG
City
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Book
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Writer
Han Kang

About the Author

  • Han Kang
  • Birth : 1970 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Kang
  • Family Name : Han
  • Korean Name : 한강
  • ISNI : 0000000054537103
  • Works : 160
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  • English(English)

The shortlist for 2016’s International Man Booker Prize, whose winner is announced tomorrow, is a veritable who’s who of the world’s most exciting novelists. There is one acknowledged master, Turkey’s Orhan Pamuk for A Strangeness in My Mind, and Italy’s Elena Ferrante, the enigmatic darling of the global literary scene. Inaugurated in 2005 and held every other year until 2015, the International Man Booker expanded the brief of the long-running Man Booker Prize and provided a life-time achievement award. Its first winner was Albania’s Ismael Kadare, followed by Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe. When this duo was succeeded by a trio of admittedly great north Americans – Alice Munro, Philip Roth and Lydia Davis – the competition risked dovetailing into the main Man Booker which rewarded English-speaking writers from the Commonwealth. Indeed, Canada’s Munro could technically win the main prize....     Source: http://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/1944565/yan-lianke-china-or-han-kang-south-korea-international-man-booker

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