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Man Asian longlist

24.07.08

The longlist for the second Man Asian literary prize has been announced. The list, which is chosen from submissions received from all over Asia, comprises 21 works of Asian fiction yet to be published in English from both well established and first-time authors.

The judges for the award are former governor general of Canada Adrienne Clarkson, who was also on the panel last year; Australian author Nicholas Rose; and the Indian writer and thinker Panjak Mishra.

The shortlist will be announced in October, with the winner announced in November at an award ceremony in Hong Kong.

Longlist in full:

Melting Love by Tulsi Badrinath
Ugly Tree by Hans Billimoria
Sugar Land by Ian Rosales Casocot
Banished! by Han Dong
Neti, Neti by Anjum Hasan
The To-Let House by Daisy Hasan
The Afghan Girl by Abdullah Hussein
To the Temple by Tsutomu Igarashi
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Rupa Krishnan
Leave Me Alone, Chengdu by Murong Xuecun
The Story that Must Not be Told by Kavery Nambisan
Love in the Chicken's Neck by Sumana Roy
On the Edge of Pandemonium by Vaibhav Saini
Midnight Tales by Salma
Lost Flamingoes of Bombay by Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Sweet Haven by Lakambini A. Sitoy
The Last Pretence by Sarayu Srivatsa
Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco
My Friend, Sancho by Amit Varma
Brothers by Yu Hua
The Music Child by Alfred A Yuson





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