18 May 2011
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Philip Roth wins Man Booker International Prize 2011
The fourth Man Booker International Prize has been won by American writer Philip Roth ...
The fourth Man Booker International Prize has been won by American writer Philip Roth.
Roth was announced as the winner at a press conference in Sydney today. The biennial prize, presented to a living author for a body of work, is worth £60,000. Previous winners are Ismail Kadare (2005), Chinua Achebe (2007) and Alice Munro (2009).
Rick Gekoski, judging, commented: 'For more than 50 years Philip Roth's books have stimulated, provoked and amused an enormous, and still expanding, audience. His imagination has not only recast our idea of Jewish identity, it has also reanimated fiction, and not just American fiction, generally.
'His career is remarkable in that he starts at such a high level, and keeps getting better. In his 50s and 60s, when most novelists are in decline, he wrote a string of novels of the highest, enduring quality. Indeed, his most recent, Nemesis (2010), is as fresh, memorable, and alive with feeling as anything he has written. His is an astonishing achievement.'
Philip Roth was born in New Jersey in 1933, and has won many awards for his fiction during a prolific writing career. Amongst his best-known works are 1969's Portnoy's Complaint and 1997's American Pastoral, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Roth was announced as the winner at a press conference in Sydney today. The biennial prize, presented to a living author for a body of work, is worth £60,000. Previous winners are Ismail Kadare (2005), Chinua Achebe (2007) and Alice Munro (2009).
Rick Gekoski, judging, commented: 'For more than 50 years Philip Roth's books have stimulated, provoked and amused an enormous, and still expanding, audience. His imagination has not only recast our idea of Jewish identity, it has also reanimated fiction, and not just American fiction, generally.
'His career is remarkable in that he starts at such a high level, and keeps getting better. In his 50s and 60s, when most novelists are in decline, he wrote a string of novels of the highest, enduring quality. Indeed, his most recent, Nemesis (2010), is as fresh, memorable, and alive with feeling as anything he has written. His is an astonishing achievement.'
Philip Roth was born in New Jersey in 1933, and has won many awards for his fiction during a prolific writing career. Amongst his best-known works are 1969's Portnoy's Complaint and 1997's American Pastoral, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
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