  MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE So the new owners of the Booker prize have announced another prize, one for international fiction, to be awarded every two years. it's a LOT of money, about $110,000, and guess what? not one penny goes to the translator. in fact, in the company's urlLink press release translation is not mentioned at all -- and i quote: "Worth £60,000 to the winner, the prize will be awarded once every two years to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is generally available in translation in the English language.
" and again, "The Man Booker International Prize is unique in the world of literature in that it can be won by an author of any nationality, providing that his or her work is available in the English language. " there's a urlLink story about the prize in today's guardian... but once again, no mention of how these works might get into the english language in the first place! 
