Lydia Davis has won the fifth Man Booker International Prize, chosen from among nine finalists.
The announcement was made at Victoria and Albert Museum in London. We’ve included the complete list of finalists below. Here’s more from the official release:
The Prize, worth £60,000, is awarded for an achievement in fiction on the world stage and Davis’s achievements are writ large despite often using startlingly few words (some of her longer stories only stretch to two or three pages). Her work has the brevity and precision of poetry. Sir Christopher Ricks, chairman of the judges, said her “writings fling their lithe arms wide to embrace many a kind. Just how to categorise them? They have been called stories but could equally be miniatures, anecdotes, essays, jokes, parables, fables, texts, aphorisms or even apophthegms, prayers or simply observations.”
Man Booker International Prize Finalists for 2013
U R Ananthamurthy
Aharon Appelfeld
Lydia Davis
Intizar Husain
Yan Lianke
Marie NDiaye
Josip Novakovich
Marilynne Robinson
Vladimir Sorokin
Peter Stamm