Philip Roth wins Man Booker Prize

Philip Roth is the winner of the fourth Man Booker International Prize. Roth was chosen from a list of 13 eminent contenders. The Man Booker International Prize, worth 60,000 pounds, 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. Philip Roth is a literary giant and one of the world's most prolific, celebrated - and controversial - writers. Born in March 1933 in New Jersey, Roth is best known for his 1969 novel Portnoy's Complaint, and for his late-1990s trilogy comprising the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist (1998), and The Human Stain (2000). Read more here: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/stories/1502