From the BBC:
Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has won the inaugural Booker International Prize, beating British authors Muriel Spark, Doris Lessing and Ian McEwan.
The writer, who has lived in France since 1990, will receive £60,000 at a ceremony in Edinburgh on 27 June.
Professor John Carey, chair of the judging panel, called Mr Kadare “a universal writer in the tradition of storytelling that goes back to Homer”.
Mr Kadare said he was “deeply honoured” to win the prize.
“I am a writer from the Balkan Fringe, a part of Europe which has long been notorious exclusively for news of human wickedness,” he said.
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