The Man Booker International Prize, worth £60 000 – or R669 193.30 - is awarded for an achievement in fiction on the world stage. It is awarded 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. Previous winners include Ismail Kadaré (2005), Chinua Achebe (2007) and Alice Munro (2009).

In 1997, Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN / Faulkner Award three times. In 2005, The Plot against America received the Society of American Historians’ Prize. Roth has also been awarded the PEN / Nabokov Award in 2006, and the PEN / Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2007.

Watch Philip Roth’s acceptance message on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6uL8SUYqeY

Philip Roth’s latest novels include:
Nemesis (HC) | ISBN: 9780224089531 | RRP: R280 | Date: November 2010
The Humbling (SC) | ISBN: 9780099535652 | RRP: R125 | Date: October 2010

American Pastoral will be available in August as part of the Vintage 21 promotion – ‘celebrating 21 years of Vintage publishing’.

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