Man Asian Literary Prize
| Man Asian Literary Prize | |
|---|---|
| Description | Best Asian novel unpublished in English |
| Location | Asia |
| Presented by | Man Group and Hong Kong International Literary Festival |
| First awarded | 2007 |
| Website | http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/ |
The Man Asian Literary Prize is an annual literary award for an "Asian novel unpublished in English", with the inaugural award first presented in 2007. The objectives of the prize are: "to bring exciting new Asian authors to the attention of the world literary community", "to facilitate publishing and translation of Asian literature in and into English" and "to highlight Asia's developing role in world literature". The prize aims to be explicitly Asian, rooted to the region and would be awarded only to writers originating and writing from Asia, rather than authors of Asian background writing from other regions.[1] The winning author was awarded USD 10,000 and the translator (if any) USD 3,000.
The prize was established by the Hong Kong International Literary Festival with the financial support of Man Group, title sponsor of the Man Booker Prize.
2007 Prize
Chinese writer Jiang Rong won the inaugural prize with his work, Wolf Totem.[2]
2007 shortlist
Jiang Rong was selected from a short-list of five:[3]
- 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
2007 longlist
On 20 July 2007, the Administrative Committee of the Prize announced a list of 23 names:[4]
- 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
- Jose Dalisay Jr., Soledad’s Sister
- Reeti Gadekar, Families at Home
- Xiaolu Guo, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
- Ameena Hussein, The Moon in the Water
- Nu Nu Yi Inwa, Smile As They Bow
- Jiang Rong, Wolf Totem
- 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, Pichaikuppan
- Xu Xi, Habit of a Foreign Sky
- Egoyan Zheng, Fleeting Light
2008 Prize
In 2008, the Man Asian Literary Prize was awarded to Miguel Syjuco, a Filipino writer now based in Montreal, for his novel Ilustrado.
2008 shortlist
- Kaveri Nambisan, The Story that Must Not be Told
- Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay
- Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado
- Yu Hua, Brothers
- Alfred A. Yuson, The Music Child
2008 longlist
On 22 July 2008, the Administrative Committee of the Prize announced a list of 21 names:[5]
- 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
- Kavery Nambisan, The Story that Must Not be Told
- Sumana Roy, Love in the Chicken's Neck
- Vaibhav Saini, On the Edge of Pandemonium
- Salma, Midnight Tales
- Siddharth Dhanvant Shangvi, Lost Flamingoes of Bombay
- Lakambini Sitoy, Sweet Haven
- Sarayu Privatsa, The Last Pretense
- Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado
- Amit Varma, My Friend, Sancho
- Yu Hua, Brothers
- Alfred Yuson, The Music Child
2009 Prize
The 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize have opened submissions since Monday 19 January 2009 and will close on Tuesday 31 March 2009. The winner will be announced on 15 November 2009.
The winner for 2009 was Su Tong for The Boat to Redemption.
2009 Shortlist
On 15 October 2009, the Administrative Committee of 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
2009 Longlist
On 24 July 2009, the Administrative Committee of the Prize announced a list of 24 names: [7]
- Gopilal Acharya, With a Stone in My Heart
- Omair Ahmad, Jimmy the Terrorist
- Siddharth Chowdhury, Day Scholar
- Kishwar Desai, Witness the Night
- Samuel Ferrer, The Last Gods of Indochine
- Eric Gamalinda, The Descartes Highlands
- Ram Govardhan, Rough with the Smooth
- Kanishka Gupta, History of Hate
- Kameroon Rasheed Ismeer, Memoirs of a Terrorist
- Ratika Kapur, Overwinter
- Mariam Karim, The Bereavement of Agnes Desmoulins
- Karri Sriram, The Autobiography of a Mad Nation
- Nitasha Kaul, Residue
- 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
- Su Tong, The Boat to Redemption
- Oyungerel Tsedevdamba, Shadow of the Red Star
References
- ^ "About the Prize". Man Asian Literary Prize. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- ^ "2007 Man Asian Literary Prize Winner Announced". Man Asian Literary Prize. Retrieved 2007-11-11.
- ^ "Five authors make the shortlist for inaugural prize". Man Asian Literary Prize. Retrieved 2007-10-26.
- ^ "2007 Man Asian Literary Prize - Longlist Announced". Man Asian Literary Prize. Retrieved 2007-07-21.
- ^ "2008 Man Asian Literary Prize - Longlist Announced". Man Asian Literary Prize. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- ^ "2009 Man Asian Literary Prize - Shortlist Announced". Man Asian Literary Prize. Retrieved 2009-09-16.
- ^ "2009 Man Asian Literary Prize - Longlist Announced". Man Asian Literary Prize. Retrieved 2009-07-25.