Culture of Canada win the Man Booker Prize for "The English Patient". Margaret Atwood won the Booker in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin" and Yann Martel won it in 2002 for the "Life of Pi". Carol Shields's "The Stone Diaries" won the Governor General's Awards in Canada in 1993, the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2013, Alice Munro was the first Canadian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the modern short story". Munro is also a recipient of the Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime
Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author) Writers' Prize for Overall Best Book Award for his novel "Mister Pip". The novel is set during the Bougainville Civil War of the early 1990s in Papua New Guinea. The book was also short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2007. Jones was the 2007 recipient of the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency. Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author) Lloyd Jones (born 23 March 1955) is a New Zealand author. His novel "Mister Pip" won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker. Jones was born in Lower Hutt in 1955, and attended Hutt Valley High School and