Anonymous writer to win Man Booker Prize

The prestigious British Man Booker Prize can go first to an anonymous writer.

All that is known about Ferrante is that she was born in Naples, reports the Booker Prize Foundation. Books have, once they are written, no need to have declared their authors ' ' Ferrante was against it before publishing her first novel.

Which publishers are the only ones who know who she is. Her translator never had any contact with her.

For the price, among others, also nominated the Turkish Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk. The prize sum of 50000 pounds (63000) attached.