wednesday march fourteen authors world named contenders booker international prize long list writers includes prolific veteran bengali writer mahasweta devi naipaul included list authors countries nominated booker prize prestigious literary awards world prize years carries prize money pounds author worldwide provided work english fourteen writers named judge's list contenders translation category mahasweta devi writes bengali based santiniketan west bengal india's foremost writers well-known activist rights indigenous peoples devi depicting moral dilemmas indians walks life face believed real history made ordinary people constantly reappearance forms folklore ballads myths legends carried ordinary people generations devi reason inspiration writing people exploited accept defeat endless source ingredients writing amazingly noble suffering human beings material started knowing writing devi added authors list peter carey australia evan connell mahasweta devi india doctorow james kelman mario vargas llosa peru arno lustig czechoslovakia alice munro canada naipaul trinidad india joyce carol oates antonio tabucchi italy ngugi thiong'o kenya dubravka ugresic croatia ludmila ulitskaya russia judging panel booker international prize includes jane smiley writer amit chaudhuri writer academic musician andrey kurkov writer film script writer essayist 