John Banville is among the 15 authors who have been named on the Judges' List of Contenders for the second Man Booker International Prize.
The £60,000 Man Booker International Prize is a biennial award which recognises one writer's continued creativity, development and overall contribution to fiction on the world stage.
Albanian writer Ismail Kadaré won the inaugural prize in 2005.
Wexford-born Banville won the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year for his latest book, 'The Sea' (2005).
The nominated writers, including Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe, Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and American novelist Philip Roth, come from 10 countries. Four are writers in translation.
The judging panel for the 2007 Man Booker International Prize is: academic and author Professor Elaine Showalter; writer and novelist Nadine Gordimer; and Irish writer and academic Colm Tóibin.
Judges' List of Contenders
Chinua Achebe
Margaret Atwood
John Banville
Peter Carey
Don DeLillo
Carlos Fuentes
Doris Lessing
Ian McEwan
Harry Mulisch
Alice Munro
Michael Ondaatje
Amos Oz
Philip Roth
Salman Rushdie
Michel Tournier
The winner of The Man Booker International Prize 2007 will be announced in early summer 2007.
