Man Asian Literary Prize
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| Awarded for | Best novel written by a citizen of an Asian country, either published in English or translated into English[1] |
| Presented by | Man Group |
| Location | Asia (limited) |
| First awarded | 2007 |
| Official website | http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/ |
The Man Asian Literary Prize, founded in 2007, is an annual literary award given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published in the previous calendar year.[1] It is awarded to writers who are citizens or residents of one of the following 34 (out of 50) Asian countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, The Hong Kong or Macau SAR's, The Maldives, The PRC of China, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.[1][2] Submissions are invited through publishers who are entitled to each submit two novels by August 31 each year. Entry forms are available from May.
The Man Asian Literary Prize awards USD 30,000 to the author and an additional USD 5,000 to the translator (if any).[1] For the prize of the first three years of its running, from 2007-9, the Man Asian Literary Prize awarded USD 10,000 (author)/ 3,000 USD (translator) to a novel written by an Asian writer of the elective countries, either in English or translated into English, and yet unpublished. Submissions were made by the authors. The reason given by the Prize for the changes introduced in 2010 include the difficulty in finding talented unpublished authors.[3] With the new format, which has shortlisted and winning novels already available to the literary community, media and general public, the Man Asian Literary Prize recognises “the best English works each year by Asian authors and aims to significantly raise international awareness and appreciation of Asian literature.”[1]
The Man Asian Literary Prize is sponsored by Man Group plc., title sponsor of the Man Booker Prize.
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[edit] Winners and honorees
[edit] 2011
Judging panel
- Razia Iqbal, chair (Uganda)
- Chang-rae Lee (Korean-American)
- Vikas Swarup (India)
Shortlist[4]
- Jamil Ahmad, The Wandering Falcon
- Jahnavi Barua, Rebirth
- Rahul Bhattacharya, The Sly Company of People Who Care
- Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke
- Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom
- Yan Lianke, Dream of Ding Village
- Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake
Also longlisted in 2011[5]
- Tahmima Anam, The Good Muslim
- Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, The Colonel
- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
- Anuradha Roy, The Folded Earth
- Tarun J Tejpal, The Valley of Masks
[edit] 2010
- The winner, Bi Feiyu's Three Sisters, was announced March 17, 2011.
Judging Panel
- Monica Ali (United Kingdoms)
- Homi K. Bhabha (United States)
- Hsu-Ming Teo (Malaysia)
Shortlist
- Bi Feiyu, Three Sisters
- Manu Joseph, Serious Men
- Tabish Khair, The Thing About Thugs
- Kenzaburo Oe, The Changeling
- Yoko Ogawa, Hotel Iris
Also longlisted in 2010
- Upamanyu Chatterjee, Way to Go
- Anosh Irani, Dahanu Road
- Sarita Mandanna, Tiger Hills
- Usha K.R., Monkey-man
- Criselda Yabes, Below the Crying Mountain
[edit] 2009
- The winner for 2009 was Su Tong for The Boat to Redemption.
Judging panel
- Colm Tóibín (Ireland)
- Gish Jen (United States)
- Pankaj Mishra (India)
Shortlist
On 15 October 2009, the Prize announced a shortlist of 5 names: [6]
- Omair Ahmad, Jimmy the Terrorist
- Siddharth Chowdhury, Day Scholar
- Eric Gamalinda, The Descartes Highlands
- Nitasha Kaul, Residue
- Su Tong, The Boat to Redemption
Also longlisted in 2009
On 24 July 2009, the Prize announced a list of 24 names: [7]
- Gopilal Acharya, With a Stone in My Heart
- Kishwar Desai, Witness the Night
- Samuel Ferrer, The Last Gods of Indochine
- Ram Govardhan, Rough with the Smooth
- Kanishka Gupta, History of Hate
- Kameroon Rasheed Ismeer, Memoirs of a Terrorist
- Ratika Kapur, Overwinter [8]
- Mariam Karim, The Bereavement of Agnes Desmoulins
- Karri Sriram, The Autobiography of a Mad Nation
- R . Zamora Linmark, Leche
- Mario I. Miclat, 'Secrets of the Eighteen Mansions
- Clarissa V. Militante, Different Countries
- Varuna Mohite, Omigod
- Dipika Mukherjee, Thunder Demons
- Hena Pillai, Blackland
- Roan Ching-yueh, Lin Xiu-Tzi and her Family
- Edgar Calabia Samar, Eight Muses of the Fall
- K. Srilata, Table for Four
- Oyungerel Tsedevdamba, Shadow of the Red Star
[edit] 2008
- In 2008, the Man Asian Literary Prize was awarded to Miguel Syjuco, a Filipino writer now based in Montreal, for his novel Ilustrado. [9]
Juding panel
- Adrienne Clarkson (Canada)
- Pankaj Mishra (India)
- Nicholas Jose (Australia)
Shortlist
- Kaveri Nambisan, The Story that Must Not be Told
- Siddharth Dhanvant Sanghvi, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay
- Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado
- Yu Hua, Brothers
- Alfred A. Yuson, The Music Child
Also longlisted in 2008
On 22 July 2008, the Prize announced a list of 21 names:[9]
- Tulsi Badrinath, Melting Love
- Hans Billimoria, Ugly tree
- Ian Casocot, Sugar Land
- Han Dong, Banished
- Anjum Hasan, Neti,Neti
- Daisy Hasan, The To-Let House
- Abdullah Hussein, The Afghan Girl
- Tsutomu Igarashi, To the Temple
- Rupa Krishnan, Something Wicked This Way Comes
- Murong Xuecun, Leave Me Alone, Chengdu
- Sumana Roy, Love in the Chicken's Neck
- Vaibhav Saini, On the Edge of Pandemonium
- Salma, Midnight Tales
- Lakambini Sitoy, Sweet Haven
- Sarayu Srivatsa, The Last Pretense
- Amit Varma, My Friend, Sancho
[edit] 2007
- Chinese writer Jiang Rong won the inaugural prize with his work, Wolf Totem.[10]
Judging panel
- Andre Aciman (United States)
- Adrienne Clarkson (Canada)
- Nicholas Jose (Australia)
Shortlist
Jiang Rong was selected from a short-list of five:[11]
- Jose Dalisay Jr., Soledad's Sister
- Reeti Gadekar, Families at Home
- Nu Nu Yi Inwa, Smile As They Bow
- Jiang Rong, Wolf Totem
- Xu Xi, Habit of a Foreign Sky
Also longlisted in 2007
On 20 July 2007, the Prize announced a list of 23 names:[12]
- Tulsi Badrinath, The Living God
- Sanjay Bahadur, The Sound Of Water
- Kankana Basu, Cappuccino Dusk
- Sanjiv Bhatla, InJustice
- Shahbano Bilgrami, Without Dreams
- Saikat Chakraborty, The Amnesiac
- Xiaolu Guo, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
- Ameena Hussein, The Moon in the Water
- Hitomi Kanehara, Autofiction
- N S Madhavan, Litanies of Dutch Battery
- Laxmi Narayan Mishra, The Little God
- Mo Yan, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
- Nalini Rajan, The Pangolin’s Tale
- Chiew-Siah Tei, Little Hut of Leaping Fishes
- Shreekumar Varma, Maria’s Room
- Anuradha Vijayakrishnan, Seeing The Girl
- Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, The Silent One
- Egoyan Zheng, Fleeting Light
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e "MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE ANNOUNCES NEW FORMAT". Man Asian Literary Prize. http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/news/2010/6/9/man-asian-literary-prize-announces-new-format.html. Retrieved 2010-04-28.
- ^ Entry Rules. Man Asian Literary Prize. Retrieved 2011-05-17.
- ^ "The Man Asian Literary Prize Switcheroo", Doretta Lau, Wall Street Journal, Feb.15 2011
- ^ "Seven Novels Make Man Asian Literary Prize's Strongest Shortlist", Man Asian Prize website, Jan 10, 2012.
- ^ "Novels of epic scale and ambition head 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize Longlist", Man Asian Prize website, Nov. 1, 2011.
- ^ "2009 Man Asian Literary Prize - Shortlist Announced". Man Asian Literary Prize. http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/news/2010/5/19/2009-prize-shortlist.html. Retrieved 2009-09-16.
- ^ "2009 Man Asian Literary Prize - Longlist Announced". Man Asian Literary Prize. http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/news/2010/5/19/2009-prize-longlist.html. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
- ^ "Ratika Kapur's official web page". http://ratikakapur.wordpress.com.
- ^ a b "2008 Man Asian Literary Prize - Longlist Announced". Man Asian Literary Prize. http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/news/2010/5/19/2008-prize.html. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- ^ "2007 Man Asian Literary Prize Winner Announced". Man Asian Literary Prize. http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/news/2010/5/19/2007-winner.html. Retrieved 2007-11-11.
- ^ "Five authors make the shortlist for inaugural prize". Man Asian Literary Prize. http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/news/2010/5/19/2007-prize-shorlist.html. Retrieved 2007-10-26.
- ^ "2007 Man Asian Literary Prize - Longlist Announced". Man Asian Literary Prize. http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/news/2010/5/19/2007-prize-longlist.html. Retrieved 2007-07-21.
