Hungarian author wins 2015 Man Booker prize

Hungarian author Laszlo Krasznahorkai has won Britain’s prestigious Man Booker International prize for his achievement in fiction as he edged out India’s Amitav Ghosh and eight others to bag the top literary award.
Krasznahorkai, 61, in his acceptance speech at a ceremony in the Victoria and Albert Museum, credited Kafka, singer Jimi Hendrix and the city of Kyoto in Japan for inspiration.
The biennial Man Booker International prize is worth £60,000 and is intended to honour a living author for his or her body of work, either written in English or available in English translation. The award can be won only once in an author’s lifetime. It has gone in the past to accomplished authors like Arundhati Roy, Aravind Adiga, Ismail Kadare from Albania, Chinua Achebe from Nigeria and Canada’s Alice Munro among others.