The Man Booker International Prize, according to its website, was created in 2005 to highlight "one writer's overall contribution to fiction on the world stage." ...

South Korean author Han Kang won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize on Monday for “the Vegetarian,” a novel about a women who gives up eating meat.

If you think the competition to win a literary prize is tough, just look at the competition among the prizes themselves. Man Booker International and the Independent's Foreign Fiction Prize merge ...

Created in 2003, The Man Booker International Prize was intended as a kind of lifetime achievement award, honoring an author’s entire body of work, ...

News about the Man Booker Prize, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

The 2015 Man Booker International, on the other hand, celebrates literature not for its “newsy” appeal, but for being great literature. This year, it earns the final third of its moniker. Read ...

The Man Booker International Prize, awarded annually to the best in translated fiction, announced the longlist of 13 novels vying for the prize, including novels by previous Man Booker winners Han ...

Launched in 2005, the Man Booker International Prize goes out every other year to a living author whose work is widely available in English, whether originally written in English or translated.

Previously, the Man Booker International prize was awarded every two years based on an author’s entire body of work, but this new hybrid, mega-award will now be shared equally by the author and ...

South Korean author Han Kang won the prestigious Man Booker International Prize on Monday for “the Vegetarian,” a novel about a women who gives up eating meat.