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Booker longlist announced
Date: August 8, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Longlist for the 2007 Man Booker Prize has been revealed. From the 13 authors on the list, only one (Ian McEwan) has been nominated for the award before. Furthermore, four first-time novelists have also made the list.
This year’s longlist is:
Nicola Barker: Darkmans
Edward Docx: Self Help
Tan Twan Eng: The Gift Of Rain
Anne Enright: The Gathering
Mohsin Hamid: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Peter Ho Davies: The Welsh Girl
Lloyd Jones: Mister Pip
Nikita Lalwani: Gifted
Ian McEwan: On Chesil Beach
Catherine O’Flynn: What Was Lost
Michael Redhill: Consolation
Indra Sinha: Animal’s People
A.N. Wilson: Winnie & Wolf
Shortlist will be announced on the 6th of September, and the winner will be known on the 16th of October.
Filed under English literature, Fiction, Longlists, Novels
The 2007 Man Asian Literary Prize - Longlist Announced
Date: July 22, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
The longlist for the first ever Man Asian Literary Prize has been announced. The new prize was established to recognize and promote new Asian literature. $10,000 (US) is given to the best new Asian novel “unpublished in English”, and $3,000 to its translator, if eligible.
This year’s longlist is:
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
