THE MAN BOOKER
INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2009
Judges’ List Announced
14 authors have made it on to the Judges’ List of Contenders for the third Man Booker International Prize. The writers come from 12 countries and seven are writers in translation.
The Judges’ List was announced by the chair of judges, Jane Smiley, at a press conference held at The New York Public Library, today (Wednesday 18 March 2009).
The 14 authors on the list are:
Peter Carey (Australia)
– HIS ILLEGAL SELF 简体版权已售出 / 繁体：AVAILABLE
– THEFT:A LOVE STORY 简体版权已售出 / 繁体：AVAILABLE
– WRONG ABOUT JAPAN: A FATHER’S JOURNEY WITH HIS SON
– MY LIFE AS A FAKE 简体/繁体：AVAILABLE
– TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG
– OSCAR AND LUCINDA 《奥斯卡与露辛达》 简体/繁体：AVAILABLE
Evan S. Connell (USA)
Mahasweta Devi (Bangladesh)
E.L. Doctorow (USA)
James Kelman (UK)
– KIERON SMITH, BOY 简体/繁体：AVAILABLE
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
Arnošt Lustig (Czechoslovakia)
Alice Munro (Canada)
V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad/India)
– LETTERS BETWEEN A FATHER AND SON (BETWEEN FATHER AND SON : FAMILY LETTERS) 简体版权已售出 繁体：AVAILABLE (到期可授)
– LITERARY OCCASIONS: ESSAYS 简体/繁体：AVAILABLE
– IN A FREE STATE: A NOVEL 《自由国度》简体版权已售出 繁体中文：AVAILABLE (到期可授)
– HALF A LIFE 简体版权已售出 繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
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– THE WRITER AND THE WORLD 简体/繁体：AVAILABLE
其他作品 简体繁体版权已售出
Joyce Carol Oates (USA)
– WHAT I LIVED FOR 简体/繁体：AVAILABLE
– THE MUSEUM OF DR. MOSES: TALES OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE 简体/繁体：AVAILABLE
Antonio Tabucchi (Italy)
– TRISTANO MUORE 《嘻哈星球笔记》繁体版权已售出 简体：AVAILABLE
Ngugi Wa Thiong’O (Kenya)
Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia)
– IN THE JAWS OF LIFE 《生命的入口》简体/繁体：AVAILABLE
– MINISTRY OF PAIN 简体/繁体：AVAILABLE
– FORDING THE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS 简体/繁体：AVAILABLE
Ludmila Ulitskaya (Russia)
LONDON BOULEVARD
by Ken Bruen
Film in production, directed by William Monahan, starring Colin Farrel and Keira Knightley.