Man Booker International Prize 2013: Lydia Davis wins Her style has been described as witty and minimalist. One of her most recent works is a 1,600-word short story that will appear in this Saturday's Daily Telegraph. It has no paragraph breaks. The prize is sponsored by Man Group plc, which also sponsors the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The Man Booker International Prize is significantly different in that it highlights one writer's overall contribution to fiction on the world stage. The judges consider a writer's body of work rather than a single novel. This year's judges were the scholar and literary critic Sir Christopher Ricks (chair), author and essayist Elif Batuman, writer and broadcaster Aminatta Forna, novelist Yiyun Li and author and academic Tim Parks. The other shortlisted authors were: U.R. Ananthamurthy (India), Aharon Appelfeld (Israel), Intizar Husain (Pakistan), Yan Lianke (China), Marie NDiaye (France), Josip Novakovich (Canada), Marilynne Robinson (USA), Vladimir Sorokin (Russia) and Peter Stamm (Switzerland). Lydia Davis's latest short story will appear in this Saturday's special Hay Festival Review section of the Daily Telegraph and online. Davis will be speaking at the Telegraph Hay Festival on Friday May 24 at 7pm