<P> The inaugural winner was Albanian writer Ismail Kadare . He was followed by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe in 2007, and two years later the Canadian writer Alice Munro won the award . In 2011 the prize was awarded to American Philip Roth . Praising its concerted judgement, the journalist Hephzibah Anderson noted that the Man Booker International Prize was "fast becoming the more significant award, appearing an ever more competent alternative to the Nobel". </P> <P> In 2015 it was announced that the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize would be disbanded . The prize money from that award would be folded into the Man Booker International Prize, and the latter would become what the Independent prize used to be: a yearly book award for English translations, with the prize split between author and translator . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Year </Th> <Th> Name </Th> <Th> Work </Th> <Th> Translator </Th> <Th> Language (s) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2005 </Td> <Td> Ismail Kadare </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Albanian </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2007 </Td> <Td> Chinua Achebe </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> n / a </Td> <Td> English </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2009 </Td> <Td> Alice Munro </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> n / a </Td> <Td> English </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2011 </Td> <Td> Philip Roth </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> n / a </Td> <Td> English </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2013 </Td> <Td> Lydia Davis </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> n / a </Td> <Td> English </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2015 </Td> <Td> László Krasznahorkai </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> George Szirtes and Ottilie Mulzet </Td> <Td> Hungarian </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2016 </Td> <Td> Han Kang </Td> <Td> The Vegetarian </Td> <Td> Deborah Smith </Td> <Td> Korean </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2017 </Td> <Td> David Grossman </Td> <Td> A Horse Walks Into a Bar </Td> <Td> Jessica Cohen </Td> <Td> Hebrew </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2018 </Td> <Td> Olga Tokarczuk </Td> <Td> Flights </Td> <Td> Jennifer Croft </Td> <Td> Polish </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Year </Th> <Th> Name </Th> <Th> Work </Th> <Th> Translator </Th> <Th> Language (s) </Th> </Tr>

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