Judge quits in protest as novelist wins Booker prize

PHILIP ROTH, America’s most decorated living novelist, yesterday won the fourth Man Booker International Prize, but the award sank into controversy as one of the judges resigned in protest.

The 78-year-old author beat off competition from 12 other writers — including two from China — for the $100,000 award.

The prize was first presented in 2005, and is given every two years for a body of work that was written originally in English or is widely available in English translation.