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Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. 19th May 2015. Ten writers attend the Victoria and Albert Museum in west London for the final of the sixth Man Booker International Prize, the £60,000 award which recognises one writer for his or her achievement in fiction. The judging panel for the prize consists of writer and academic, Professor Marina Warner (Chair); novelist Nadeem Aslam; novelist, critic and Professor of World Literature in English at Oxford University, Elleke Boehmer; Editorial Director of the New York Review Classics series, Edwin Frank, and Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS, University of London, Wen-chin Ouyang. Pictured: László Krasznahorkai (Hungary) wins the Man Booker International Prize 2015. Born in 1954 Krasznahorkai gained considerable recognition in 1985 when he published Satantango which he later adapted for the cinema in collaboration with the filmmaker Bela Tarr. In 1993, he received the German Bestenliste Prize for the best literary work of the year for The Melancholy of Resistance and has since been honoured with numerous literary prizes, amongst them the highest award of the Hungarian state, the Kossuth Prize. // Lee Thomas, Flat 47a Park East Building, Bow Quarter, London, E3 2UT. Tel. 07784142973. Email: leepthomas@gmail.com www.leept.co.uk (0000635435)
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Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. 19th May 2015. Ten writers attend the Victoria and Albert Museum in west London for the final of the sixth Man Booker International Prize, the £60,000 award which recognises one writer for his or her achievement in fiction. The judging panel for the prize consists of writer and academic, Professor Marina Warner (Chair); novelist Nadeem Aslam; novelist, critic and Professor of World Literature in English at Oxford University, Elleke Boehmer; Editorial Director of the New York Review Classics series, Edwin Frank, and Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS, University of London, Wen-chin Ouyang. Pictured: László Krasznahorkai (Hungary) wins the Man Booker International Prize 2015. Born in 1954 Krasznahorkai gained considerable recognition in 1985 when he published Satantango which he later adapted for the cinema in collaboration with the filmmaker Bela Tarr. In 1993, he received the German Bestenliste Prize for the best literary work of the year for The Melancholy of Resistance and has since been honoured with numerous literary prizes, amongst them the highest award of the Hungarian state, the Kossuth Prize. // Lee Thomas, Flat 47a Park East Building, Bow Quarter, London, E3 2UT. Tel. 07784142973. Email: leepthomas@gmail.com www.leept.co.uk (0000635435)