This year's Man Booker Prize was awarded to Richard Flanagan, author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, on Oct 14. The prize money is £50,000. A judge in his prize announcement said "love and war are the top two themes in literature and the book is a magnificent novel of love and war". The Chinese publisher obtained the copyright of this winning novel, which will be published in Mandarin.

Flanagan, born in Tasmania in 1961 is recognized as one of the greatest novelists in Australia. The Narrow Road to the Deep North took Flanagan 12 years to finish. It tells the story of an Australia surgeon who has been imprisoned on the Burma Death Railway, a Japanese POW camp during World War II. The Man Booker Prize is seen as the top literary prize awarded each year for the best English language novel published in the UK since 1969.

The novel's copyright has been acquired by Shanghai Jiujiu Culture Industry Co. Ltd.. "We got the copyright before the Frankfurt Book Fair" said Huang Yuhai, chairman of the company. This is the third copyright of an international literary award winning novel obtained this year by Jiujiu, following the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Goldfinch and nine novels by Patrick Modiano.

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