The Man Booker International Prize judges have revealed the six finalists for its annual prize, which honors writers for achievements in fiction.
The authors come from all around the globe. Each shortlisted author and translator will receive £1,000. A £50,000 prize will be divided equally between the author and the translator of the winning title. The book settings for these titles include: Angola, Naples, Austria, Istanbul, South Korea and China. Five of the authors are being nominated for the first time and the translators are mostly females from the UK or US.
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<strong>Man Booker International Prize 2016 Finalists</strong>
- A General Theory of Oblivion (Harvill Secker), José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola), Daniel Hahn (UK)
- The Story of the Lost Child (Europa Editions), Elena Ferrante (Italy), Ann Goldstein (USA)
- The Vegetarian (Portobello Books), Han Kang (South Korea), Deborah Smith (UK)
- A Strangeness in My Mind (Faber & Faber), Orhan Pamuk (Turkey), Ekin Oklap (Turkey)
- A Whole Life (Picador), Robert Seethaler (Austria), Charlotte Collins (UK)
- The Four Books (Chatto & Windus), Yan Lianke (China), Carlos Rojas (USA)