Israeli NGO gains donation from Booker prize winner David Grossman
An Israeli human rights group has welcomed the donation of prize money from the Man Booker International Prize.
An Israeli human rights group disliked by the government has welcomed the donation of prize money from the Man Booker International Prize won by David Grossman.
The Israeli writer won the prize on Wednesday for his novel A Horse Walks Into a Bar, along with his US translator Jessica Cohen, with the two splitting the £50,000 ($84,000) award. Cohen said she would donate “half of the award money” to B’Tselem, which campaigns against the occupation of Palestinian territories. Grossman, the first Israeli to win the prize, is a member of the NGO’s public council but told army radio he was wary of being a representative of any particular cause.
The international edition of Britain’s Man Booker Prize was introduced in 2005 and up to last year was awarded in recognition of a body of work by a living author whose work was written or available in English. From last year the prize has been given for a single work of fiction that has been translated into English and published in Britain.
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