Philip Roth is today announced
as the winner of the fourth Man
Booker International Prize at a
press conference at the Sydney
Opera House. Roth was chosen
from a list of 13 eminent
contenders.
The Man Booker International
Prize, worth £60,000, is awarded
for an achievement in fiction on
the world stage. It is presented
once every two years to a living
author for a body of work
published either originally in
English or widely available in
translation in the English
language. It has previously been
awarded to Ismail Kadaré in
2005, Chinua Achebe in 2007
and Alice Munro in 2009.
Philip Roth is a literary giant and
one of the world's most prolific,
celebrated - and controversial -
writers. Born in March 1933 in
New Jersey, Roth is best known
for his 1969 novel Portnoy's
Complaint, and for his late-1990s
trilogy comprising the Pulitzer
Prize-winning American Pastoral
(1997),
I Married a Communist (1998),
and The Human Stain (2000).
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