Philip Roth Wins Man Booker International Prize
American novelist Philip Roth was awarded the Man Booker International Prize earlier today. Roth is a prolific whose popularity has extended over 5 decades. His first novel Goodbye, Columbus won'the National Book Award in 1960, an award he also received in 1995 for Sabbath's Theater. Two of his novels have won National Book Critics Circle Awards–The Counterlife in 1987 and Patrimony: A True Story in 1991. He has received three PEN/Faulkner awards for Operation Shylock in 1994, The Human Stain in 2001, and Everyman in 2007. In 1998, he was honoured with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for American Pastoral. Other honours he has received include The American Academy of Arts and Letters gold medal for fiction and the PEN/Nabokov award.
The decision to award Roth with this honour was not unanimous. Carmen Callil, a member of the judging panel, resigned over the selection saying that Roth "goes on and on about the same subject in almost every single book. It's as though he's sitting on your face and you can't breathe".
The Man Booker International Prize is awarded every two years to a living writer. The past winners are Alice Munro, Chinua Achebe and Ismail Kadare.
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