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Updated on: 20 May,2011 07:28 AM IST  | 
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American author Philip Roth (78) has won the Man Booker International Prize for his novel, The Humbling. Here's some trivia on the genius

Philip-ing pages

American author Philip Roth (78) has won the Man Booker International Prize for his novel, The Humbling. Here's some trivia on the genius:



>>u00a0He gained fame with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, an irreverent and humorous portrait of Jewish-American life that earned him a National Book Award. He became famous after books like Letting Go and Portnoy's Complaint.

>>u00a0During the 1970s, Roth created his alter ego Nathan Zuckerman. who appeared as either the main character or an interlocutor.

>>u00a0Much of Roth's fiction revolves around semi-autobiographical themes, while self-consciously and playfully addressing the perils of establishing connections between the author Philip Roth and his fictional lives and voices with the help of Nathan.




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