Jewish author Philip Roth has won the Man Booker International Prize for the body of work in his more than 50-year-long career.

The biennial award, to be presented next month in London to Roth, 78, was announced last week. The author of the widely read and controversial Portnoy’s Complaint has also won two U.S. National Book Awards and a Pulitzer Prize.

Roth is renowned for creating the character Nathan Zuckerman, often considered an alter-ego.

Authors on the shortlist for this year’s Booker Prize included Canadian Rohinton Mistry, Philip Pullman, Anne Tyler, and Chinese novelists Wang Anyi and Su Tong. Previous winners include Canadian writer Alice Munro, Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, and Albanian writer Ismail Kadare.

The annual Man Booker Prize for Fiction is awarded for a single book.

Following the announcement, author and publisher Carmen Callil withdrew from the prize’s three-judge panel, citing her displeasure with giving the award to Roth, the Guardian reported, saying he didn’t deserve to be on the list.