Audio available of Man Booker International Prize announcement

Listen to the announcement of the 2009 contenders

15 April 2009

An recording of the announcement of the list of contenders of the Man Booker International Prize 2009, is now available on the Man Booker Prize website.

This year's judging panel announced the contenders list, which includes14 authors from 12 different countries, at a press conference on 18 March 2009 at The New York Public Library.

The judging panel is chaired by Jane Smiley (pictured). She is joined by the internationally acclaimed author Amit Chaudhuri and novelist, film script writer, and essayist Andrey Kurkov (all pictured).

Jane Smiley is the author of eleven novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres (1992), as well as several collections of essays and short fiction.

Abbeville Press also interviewed Jane Smiley at the New York Public Library, following the announcement and that interview can be heard at the Abbeville Press website.

The Man Booker International Prize recognises outstanding achievement in fiction by a living author whose works are originally published in, or widely translated into, English.

The winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009 will be announced on Wednesday 27 May 2009.

The Man Booker Prize Fiction at its finest