Man Booker International Prize
Award winners

Man Booker International Prize

Section Title: Award winners
Table Section Text: None

Year	Name	Work	Translator	Language(s)

2005	Ismail Kadare	Albanian

2007	Chinua Achebe	n/a	English

2009	Alice Munro	n/a	English

2011	Philip Roth	n/a	English

2013	Lydia Davis	n/a	English

2015	László Krasznahorkai	George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet	Hungarian

2016	Han Kang	The Vegetarian	Deborah Smith	Korean

2017	David Grossman	A Horse Walks Into a Bar	Jessica Cohen	Hebrew

2018	Olga Tokarczuk	Flights	Jennifer Croft	Polish

Sentence(s)

Winner Han Kang, Deborah Smith (translator), for The Vegetarian became the first Korean author to win the prize in 2016 and Smith became the first translator to share the prize.

final_sentence: Winner Han Kang, Deborah Smith (translator), for The Vegetarian became the first Korean author to win the prize in 2016 and Smith became the first translator to share the prize.