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2018

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who won the Man Booker International Prize Award, 2018?
A
George Saunders
B
Paul Beatty
C
Marlon James
D
Michael Ondaatje
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -László Krasznahorkai’s collection of 21 stories, each about ‘speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought’. Translated by Ottilie Muzlet, George Szirtes and John Batki.

Detailed explanation-2: -Anna Burns was awarded the 2018 Booker Prize for her third novel, Milkman, receiving £50, 000; she became the first Northern Irish author to win the prize.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilak has been awarded the Booker Prize 2023 for his second novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

Detailed explanation-4: -The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (Bloomsbury) was crowned the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the Man Booker Prize, announced on Sunday 8 July 2018. The Golden Man Booker winner was revealed at the closing event of the Man Booker 50 Festival in Royal Festival Hall at Southbank Centre.

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