Philip Roth wins Man Booker International Prize 2011

Announced on May 18, Philip Roth is the winner of the fourth Man Booker International Prize. He was chosen from a list of 13 eminent contenders. The Man Booker International Prize, worth £60,000, is awarded for an achievement in fiction on the world stage. It is presented once every two years to a living author for a body of work published either originally in English or widely available in translation in the English language.

For more information, visit the Man Booker website at http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1502.