Man Booker International Prize goes to a Canadian writer Alice Munro.

The new Man Booker International Prize is awarded every two years in recognition of a writer’s overall contribution to fiction on the world stage.

This year’s winner was chosen from a shortlist of 14 authors from 12 countries, which included Peter Carey (Australia), EL Doctorow (USA), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) and VS Naipaul (Trinidad/India).