Multiple choice

Which of the following statements about the Man Booker International Prize that was given to a Canadian author earlier this year is incorrect?

  1. Alice Munro is the winner of the prize for 2009

  2. £60,000 is awarded to the winner of the Prize

  3. Ismail Kadare of Albania was the first winner of this Prize

  4. Salman Rushdie is a previous winner of this Prize
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Explanation

Canadian short story author Alice Munro has won the third £60,000 Man Booker International Prize which is given every two years to a living author for an entire body of work that has contributed to fiction across the world stage. The international Booker was first awarded to Ismail Kadare, from Albania, in 2005, and then to Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe in 2007.

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