Albanian author Ismail Kadare was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2005, the very first year of the prize, for his entire body of work
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Mia Couto
António Emílio Leite Couto, better known as Mia Couto, is a Mozambican writer
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Maryse Condé
Born in Guadeloupe in 1934 as the youngest of eight siblings, Maryse Condé was considered the Grande Dame of Caribbean literature
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Hoda Barakat
Hoda Barakat is an award-winning Lebanese novelist
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César Aira
César Aira is an Argentinian writer and translator
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Wen-chin Ouyang
Wen-chin Ouyang is Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at SOAS, University of London.
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Edwin Frank
Edwin Frank is a poet and the founder and editorial director of the New York Review of Books Classics series.
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Elleke Boehmer
Elleke Boehmer is a writer and critic specialising in African and Indian literature in English.
Innovative Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai was announced as the winner of the sixth Man Booker International Prize at an award ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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Peter Stamm
Peter Stamm is an award-winning Swiss writer whose books have been translated into more than 30 languages