PRAGUE, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Czech novelist Arnost Lustig was among the 14 nominees announced Wednesday for the Man Booker International Prize.

    The prize was given every two years for lifetime achievement by a fiction writer who writes in English or whose work is widely available in English translation.

    Lustig, 82, lives now in the United States. His inspiration mainly comes from his own life experience, the horrors of holocaust during the II Word war.

    In 2003, Lustig's novel Krasne Zelene oci (Lovely Green Eyes) was nominated for Pulitzer prize in prosaic category.

    Last year, he was the Laureate of the International Literary Franz Kafka Prize.