Man Asian favours the Phillipines http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/23/manasianliteraryprize.awardsandprizes The prize is intended to lift the international visibility of Asian fiction and increase the volume of works reaching English audiences. Penguin US paid $100,000 for translation rights to Wolf Totem – a Chinese record - and the book, already a bestseller in China, garnered significant international attention. ............................................... 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 韓東 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 慕容雪村 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 余華 The Music Child by Alfred A Yuson --

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