awarded to an unpublished work of Asian fiction in English

Five authors make the shortlist for inaugural prize

Hong Kong, 25 October 2007 – Jose Dalisay Jr., Reeti Gadekar, Jiang Rong, Nu Nu Yi Inwa and Xu Xi are the five authors selected for the shortlist by the judging panel for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize, the first regional prize for a work unpublished in English. The winner of the prize will be announced on Saturday 10 November, 2007 at a ceremony in Hong Kong.

The five shortlisted works were chosen from a longlist of 23 and are:

Jose Dalisay Jr., Soledad’s Sister
Reeti Gadekar, Families at Home
Nu Nu Yi Inwa, Smile As They Bow
Jiang Rong, Wolf Totem
Xu Xi, Habit of a Foreign Sky

For more details, see our press release.

The Asia Literary Review is calling for submissions of short fiction and non-fiction pieces of between 2,000 and 8,000 words in length from authors long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize with a view to publication in a December print edition of the periodical showcasing work by candidates for the award.

The literary journal, set up to provide a window for the world on the best of Asian writing, requests that writers who have a piece they would like to submit for consideration contact the Editor-in-Chief, Chris Wood, at their earliest convenience, directly, or through their agent or publisher, by email to chris.wood@asialiteraryreview.com

The Asia Literary Review website can be found at www.asialiteraryreview.com

The Shortlist of the 2007 Man Asian Literary Prize will be officially announced on Thursday 25 October 2007. Please refer to the website for updates.

Hong Kong, 20 July 2007 - The Administrative Committee for the 2007 Man Asian Literary Prize has today announced the longlist of works for this inaugural prize:

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

For more details, see our press release.

The Administrative Committee for the 2007 Man Asian Literary Prize will be announcing the longlist of works for this inaugural prize on 20 July. We thank all who take special interest in the Prize. For any updates, please refer to the Prize website.

Check out an interesting interview by the BBC World Service radio:

‘The Word’ BBC World Service radio (MP3)

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The Administrative Committee of the 2007 Man Asian Literary Prize wishes to thank all the authors who made submissions to the inaugural Prize.

The long list will be announced publicly in mid-July. Long-listed candidates will be contacted individually in mid-June for verification of entry details and (in the case of partial submissions) final submission of completed manuscripts.

We regret that due to the number of submissions we have received, we are unable to respond to individual enquiries regarding submission status.

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More than 240 valid submissions were received before the entry period closed on 31 March 2007. Submissions were received from throughout Asia, in particular from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Myanmar, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, China, Macau, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan. These included works both originally in English as well as works translated from languages as wide-ranging and Chinese, Japanese, Burmese, Bahasa Indonesian, Hindi and Malayalam and came from both first-time authors as well as authors who are well-established in their own countries or more widely.