Wolf Totem' by Jiang Rong wins first Man Asian Literary Prize By Donald Greenlees Sunday, November 11, 2007 http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=8281910 HONG KONG: "Wolf Totem," a Chinese novel that has attracted critical and popular acclaim for its thought-provoking reflections on Chinese culture and society by Jiang Rong, a publicity-shy first-time author who writes under a pen name, has won the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize. The book, set on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution, has been a publishing phenomenon in China, where it has sold two million copies in its legitimate imprint and several million pirated copies since its release in 2004, despite Rong's desire to keep a low profile. The book is due to be published in English next March by Penguin Group, which set a Chinese record with the sum it paid in 2005 for foreign publication rights. Penguin expects as many as two million copies to be sold in English. A panel of three authors and literary judges selected Rong's novel for the award, which is intended to lift the international visibility of Asian fiction and increase the volume of works reaching English audiences. ......................................................... --

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