Rules
The Man Booker International Prize 2013 Rules
1. THE PRIZE
a) The Man Booker International Prize is awarded by the Booker Prize Foundation, which determines the prize rules.
b) The prize is worth £60,000 to the winner. It will be awarded once every two years to a writer (who must be living on the date of announcement of the winner) for his or her achievement in fiction. A writer can win the award only once. The prize may not be divided or withheld.
c) The Booker Prize Foundation appoints a Literary Director and an Administrator of the prize. Drawing as they think fit on recommendations from the Booker Prize Foundation's Advisory Committee, the Literary Director and the Administrator of the prize are in turn responsible for selecting and (subject to final endorsement of this selection by the Booker Prize Foundation) appointing the panel of judges, including its Chair.
d) The judges will be responsible for compiling a reading list of writers as contenders for the prize. This list, which will not be published, will then be reduced to 8 contenders to be announced in 2013. The winner will be selected from this list.
e) The Booker Prize Foundation appoints The Colman Getty Consultancy to undertake the day to day organisation of the prize and the management of events connected with it.
2. ELIGIBLE WRITERS
a) The prize is open to living authors, whose fiction has been
published in English or who have a body of work available in translation in the English language.
b) The decision of the judges, in consultation with the Literary Director and the prize's Administrator, as to eligibility shall be binding.
c) No author shall be ineligible because he or she has won any
other prize.
d) In no circumstances will any publisher or individual be allowed to submit the work of an author for consideration, nor should petitions by anyone to any member of the judging panel be allowed.
3. TRANSLATOR'S PRIZE
a) An additional translator's prize of £15,000 is available in the case of the winning author's being published in translation in English
b) The winning author will choose who should win this prize and whether it should be given to one translator or more.
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