The correct answer is David Grossman.

• David Grossman has won the Man Booker International Award for his novel 'A Horse Walks Into a Bar'.
  • David Grossman has become the first Israeli author to win the Man Booker International Prize.
  • Grossman is a bestselling Israeli writer of fiction, non-fiction, and children’s literature, whose works have been translated into 36 languages. 
• A Horse Walks into a Bar is a novel published in Hebrew in 2014 by Ha'kibbutz Ha'meuchad as Sus echad nichnas Lebar.
  • The book was translated into English by Jessica Cohen, and published in the UK by Jonathan Cape in November 2016 and in the US by Alfred A. Knopf in February 2017.
  • The title is derived from a common bar joke.
• Hence, the correct option is 2.

• Ismail Kadare is an Albanian novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright.
  • He has been a leading literary figure in Albania since the 1960s.
  • He focused on poetry until the publication of his first novel "The General of the Dead Army" which made him a leading literary figure in Albania and famous internationally.
• Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short-story writer.

  • Roth's fiction, regularly set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey, is known for its intensely autobiographical character for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction.

• Jessica Cohen is a British-Israeli-American literary translator.

  • Her translation of David Grossman's 2014 novel A Horse Walks Into a Bar was awarded the 2017 Man Booker International Prize.