CRICKET

ICC World T20 Cup, Kolkata

Men’s

Winner: West Indies

Runner-up: England

Player of the Final: Marlon Samuels (West Indies)

Player of the Tournament: Virat Kohli (India)

Women’s

Winner: West Indies

Runner-up: Australia

Player of the Final: Hayley Matthews (West Indies)

Player of the Tournament: Stafanie Taylor (West Indies)

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MOTORRACING

Bahrain Grand Prix|

Winner: Nico Rosberg (Germany/Mercedes)

Second: Kimi Raikkonen (Finland/Ferrari)

Third: Lewis Hamilton (Britain/Mercedes)

Chinese Grand Prix|

Winner: Nico Rosberg (Germany/Mercedes)

Second: Sebastian Vettel (Germany/Ferrari)

Third: Daniil Kvyat (Russia/Red Bull-TAG Heuer)

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TENNIS

Barcelona Open, Barcelona

Singles

Winner: Rafael Nadal (Spain)

Runner-up: Kei Nishikori (Japan)

Doubles

Winners: Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan (U.S.)

Runners-up: Marcel Granollers (Spain)/Pablo Cuevas (Uruguay)

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Charleston Open, Charleston (U.S.)

Singles

Winner: Sloane Stephens (U.S.)

Runner-up: Elena Vesnina (France)

Doubles

Winners: Caroline Garcia/Kristina Mladenovic (France)

Runners-up: Bethanie Mattek-Sands (U.S.)/Lucie Safarova (Czech Republic)

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Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters, Monte Carlo

Singles

Winner: Rafael Nadal (Spain)

Runner-up: Gael Monfils (France)

Doubles

Winners: Nicolas Mahut/Pierra-Hugues Herbert (France)

Runners-up: Bruno Soares (Brazil)/Jamie Murray (G. Br.)

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Stuttgart Open, Stuttgart (Germany)

Singles

Winner: Angelique Kerber (Germany)

Runner-up: Laura Siegemund (Germany)

Doubles

Winners: Caroline Garcia/Kristina Mladenovic (France)

Runners-up: Martina Hingis (Switzerland)/Sania Mirza (India)

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Han Kang & Deborah Smith win Man Booker International Prize

A 28-year-old British woman who began her translating career after being commissioned on Twitter has won the Man Booker International Prize.

Deborah Smith, who has said her first attempt at Korean translation involved “looking up practically every other word in the dictionary”, has won for her work on ‘The Vegetarian’ by Han Kang.

The pair will split the £50,000 jointly-won prize, the most prestigious award for translated fiction in the UK.

It is the first novel by Ms Han to be translated into English, and tells the story of Yeong-hye, a dutiful Korean wife who decided to give up meat to the surprise of all around her.

Boyd Tonkin, chairman of the 2016 judging panel, said: “This compact, exquisite and disturbing book will linger long in the minds, and maybe the dreams, of its readers. Deborah Smith’s perfectly judged translation matches its uncanny blend of beauty and horror at every turn”.

The novel beat the much-hyped The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, the Italian who writes under a pseudonym and could have become the first unknown winner of the prize. It also saw off competition from Angolan author Jose Eduardo Agualusa’s ‘A General Theory of Oblivion’ and Austrian Robert Seethaler’s ‘A Whole Life’.

This is the first year the prize has been awarded to a single book, with previous awards honouring an author’s body of work. Former winners include Ismail Kadaré in 2005, Chinua Achebe in 2007, Alice Munro in 2009, Philip Roth in 2011, Lydia Davis in 2013, and László Krasznahorkai in 2015.

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