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Detailed explanation-1: -The Man Booker International Prize fell in line with its Man Booker Prize sibling and became an annual award for a single book. Han Kang and her translator Deborah Smith scooped the first honours.

Detailed explanation-2: -Seoul-based author Han Kang has picked up the Man Booker International Prize for fiction for her novel “The Vegetarian.” She shared the 50, 000-pound (64, 000-euro) prize with her translator, Deborah Smith.

Detailed explanation-3: -Paul Beatty was awarded the 2016 Booker Prize for his novel The Sellout, receiving 50, 000 pounds ($61, 000), and becoming the first American author to be awarded the prize.

Detailed explanation-4: -Arundhati Roy became the first Indian citizen to win the Booker Prize. ‘God of Small Things’ book won her a booker prize in 1997. Booker prize is awarded each year for the best novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.