Tuesday, July 22, 2008

2008 Man Asian Literary Prize Longlist

Here's the longlist, which was released from Hong Kong just today:

Tulsi Badrinath, Melting Love
Hans Billimoria, Ugly Tree
Ian Rosales 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 Shanghvi, Lost Flamingoes of Bombay
Lakambini A. Sitoy, Sweet Haven
Sarayu Srivatsa, The Last Pretence
Miguel Syjuco, Ilustrado
Amit Varma, My Friend, Sancho
Yu Hua, Brothers
Alfred A. Yuson, The Music Child

The shortlist will be released this October. Congratulations to all longlisted writers, most especially to Pinoy writers Ian Rosales Casocot, Lakambini Sitoy, Miguel Syjuco, and Alfred A. Yuson! Hopefully one, some, or all four of them will be shortlisted, just like Butch Dalisay was shortlisted last year for Soledad's Sister!

More details can be found here.

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