Italian novelist and translator Antonio Tabucchi is among the 14 finalists for the Man Booker International Prize, awarded every two years for a writer's outstanding contribution to world literature.
Tabucchi, 65, whose works include Notturno Indiano (1984) and Sostiene Periera (1994) as well as prize-winning translations of Portuguese novelist Fernando Pessoa, is up against literary titans like E.L Doctorow of Ragtime fame and two Nobel Prize winners, V.S.Naipaul and Mario Vargas Llosa.
The winner of the $85,000 award will be announced in May.
Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare was the first winner of the prize in 2005.
Chinua Achebe of Nigeria won the second edition two years ago.
