Man Booker Prize 2016 Winner Han Kang

Man Booker Prize 2016 Winner Han Kang

South Korean novelist Han Kang will share £50,000 prize with translator Deborah Smith, for ‘lyrical and lacerating’ story. Han Kang and her translator Deborah Smith, who only began learning Korean seven years ago, have beaten writers including Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk and international bestseller Elena Ferrante to the Man Booker International prize.

2016 Han Kang         South Korea
2015   Marlon James           Jamaica
2014   Richard Flanagan   Australia
2013   Eleanor Catton   New Zealand
2012   Hilary Mantel           United Kingdom
2011         Julian Barnes           United Kingdom
2010   Howard Jacobson   United Kingdom
2009   Hilary Mantel           United Kingdom
2008   Aravind Adiga           India
2007   Anne Enright           Ireland
2006   Kiran Desai           India
2005   John Banville           Ireland
2004   Alan Hollinghurst   United Kingdom
2003   DBC Pierre           Australia
2002   Yann Martel           Canada
2001   Peter Carey           Australia
2000   Margaret Atwood   Canada
1997   Arundhati Roy           India