Man Asian Literary Prize

The Man Asian Literary Prize was an annual literary award between 2007 and 2012, given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published in the previous calendar year.[1] It is awarded to writers who are citizens or residents of one of the following 34 (out of 50) Asian countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, The Maldives, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.[1][2] Submissions are invited through publishers who are entitled to each submit two novels by August 31 each year. Entry forms are available from May.[citation needed]

Man Asian Literary Prize
Awarded forBest novel written by a citizen of one of select Asian countries, either published in English or translated into English[1]
LocationAsia (limited)
Presented byMan Group
First awarded2007
Last awarded2012
Websitehttp://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/ Edit this on Wikidata

From 2010 to 2012, the Man Asian Literary Prize awarded USD 30,000 to the author and an additional USD 5,000 to the translator (if any).[1] For the prize of the first three years of its running, from 2007 to 2009, the Man Asian Literary Prize awarded USD 10,000 (author)/ 3,000 USD (translator) to a novel written by an Asian writer of the elective countries, either in English or translated into English, and yet unpublished. Submissions were made by the authors. The reason given by the Prize for the changes introduced in 2010 include the difficulty in finding talented unpublished authors.[3] With the new format, which has shortlisted and winning novels already available to the literary community, media and general public, the Man Asian Literary Prize recognises “the best English works each year by Asian authors and aims to significantly raise international awareness and appreciation of Asian literature.”[1]

The Man Asian Literary Prize was sponsored by Man Group plc., title sponsor of the Man Booker Prize. It was announced in October 2012 that Man Group would no longer sponsor the prize after the 2012 winner was announced in 2013.[4][5]

Winners and honorees

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Year Result Author Work Original language & translator(s)
2007 (1st)
Judging panel:
Winner[6] Jiang Rong Wolf Totem (狼图腾) Chinese (Howard Goldblatt)
Shortlist[7]
Jose Dalisay Jr. Soledad's Sister
Reeti Gadekar Families at Home
Nu Nu Yi Smile As They Bow
(ပြုံး၍လည်း ကန်တော့ခံတော်မူပါ၊ ရယ်၍လည်း ကန်တော့ခံတော်မူပါ)
Burmese (Alfred Birnbaum, Thi Thi Aye)
Xu Xi Habit of a Foreign Sky
Longlist[8] 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
Xiaolu Guo 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
Ameena Hussein The Moon in the Water
Hitomi Kanehara Autofiction (オートフィクション) Japanese (David James Karashima)
N. S. Madhavan Litanies of Dutch Battery
(ലന്തൻബത്തേരിയിലെ ലുത്തിനിയകൾ)
Malayalam (Rajesh Rajamohan)
Laxmi Narayan Mishra The Little God
Mo Yan Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (生死疲劳) Chinese (Howard Goldblatt)
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 The Silent One
Egoyan Zheng Fleeting Light
2008 (2nd)
Judging panel:
Winner Miguel Syjuco Ilustrado
Shortlist[7]
Kavery Nambisan The Story that Must Not be Told
Siddharth Shanghvi The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay
Yu Hua Brothers (兄弟) Chinese (Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Carlos Rojas)
Alfred Yuson The Music Child
Longlist[9]
Tulsi Badrinath Melting Love
Hans Billimoria Ugly tree
Ian Casocot Sugar Land
Han Dong Banished! (扎根) Chinese (Nicky Harman)
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 (成都,今夜请将我遗忘) Chinese (Harvey Thomlinson)
Sumana Roy Love in the Chicken's Neck
Vaibhav Saini On the Edge of Pandemonium
Salma Midnight Tales
Lakambini Sitoy Sweet Haven
Sarayu Srivatsa The Last Pretense
Amit Varma My Friend, Sancho
2009 (3rd)
Judging panel:
Winner[10] Su Tong The Boat to Redemption (河岸) Chinese (Howard Goldblatt)
Shortlist[11]
Omair Ahmad Jimmy the Terrorist
Siddhartha Chowdhury Day Scholar
Eric Gamalinda The Descartes Highlands
Nitasha Kaul Residue
Longlist[12]
Gopilal Acharya With a Stone in My Heart
Kishwar Desai Witness the Night
Samuel Ferrer The Last Gods of Indochine
Ram Govardhan Rough with the Smooth
Kanishka Gupta History of Hate
Kameroon Rasheed Ismeer Memoirs of a Terrorist
Ratika Kapur Overwinter
Mariam Karim The Bereavement of Agnes Desmoulins
Karri Sriram The Autobiography of a Mad Nation
R. Zamora Linmark Leche
Mario I. Miclat Secrets of the Eighteen Mansions
Clarissa V. Militante Different Countries
Varuna Mohite Omigod
Dipika Mukherjee Thunder Demons
Hena Pillai Blackland
Roan Ching-yueh Lin Xiu-Tzi and her Family
Edgar Calabia Samar Eight Muses of the Fall
(Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog)
Filipino (Mikael de Lara Co, Sasha Martinez)
K. Srilata Table for Four
Oyungerel Tsedevdamba Shadow of the Red Star
2010 (4th)
Judging panel:
Winner[13] Bi Feiyu Three Sisters (玉米) Chinese (Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin)
Shortlist
Manu Joseph Serious Men
Tabish Khair The Thing About Thugs
Kenzaburō Ōe The Changeling (取り替え子) Japanese (Deborah Boliver Boehm)
Yōko Ogawa Hotel Iris (ホテル・アイリス) Japanese (Stephen Snyder)
Longlist Upamanyu Chatterjee Way to Go
Anosh Irani Dahanu Road
Sarita Mandanna Tiger Hills
Usha K.R. Monkey-man
Criselda Yabes Below the Crying Mountain
2011 (5th)
Judging panel:
Winner[14][15] Shin Kyung-sook Please Look After Mom (엄마를 부탁해) Korean (Chi-young Kim)
Shortlist[16]
Jamil Ahmad The Wandering Falcon
Jahnavi Barua Rebirth
Rahul Bhattacharya The Sly Company of People Who Care
Amitav Ghosh River of Smoke
Yan Lianke Dream of Ding Village (丁庄梦) Chinese (Cindy Carter)
Banana Yoshimoto The Lake (みずうみ) Japanese (Michael Emmerich)
Longlist[17]
Tahmima Anam The Good Muslim
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi The Colonel (زوال کلنل) Persian (Tom Patterdale)
Haruki Murakami 1Q84 Japanese (Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel)
Anuradha Roy The Folded Earth
Tarun Tejpal The Valley of Masks
2012 (6th)
Judging panel:
Winner[18][19] Tan Twan Eng The Garden of Evening Mists
Shortlist[20]
Musharraf Ali Farooqi Between Clay and Dust
Hiromi Kawakami The Briefcase (センセイの鞄) Japanese (Allison Powell)
Orhan Pamuk Silent House (Sessiz Ev) Turkish (Robert Finn)
Jeet Thayil Narcopolis
Longlist[21]
Benyamin Goat Days (ആടുജീവിതം) Malayalam (Joseph Koyippally)
Anjali Joseph Another Country
Uzma Aslam Khan Thinner Than Skin
Kim Thúy Ru French (Sheila Fischman)
Kim Young-ha Black Flower (검은 꽃) Korean (Charles La Shure)
Nayomi Munaweera Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Elif Şafak Honour
Sheng Keyi Northern Girls: Life Goes On (北妹) Chinese (Shelly Bryant)
Roma Tearne The Road to Urbino
Tie Ning The Bathing Women (大浴女) Chinese (Hongling Zhang, Jason Sommer)

See also

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References

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  2. ^ Entry Rules Archived 2011-04-23 at the Wayback Machine. Man Asian Literary Prize. Retrieved May 17, 2011.
  3. ^ "The Man Asian Literary Prize Switcheroo", Doretta Lau, Wall Street Journal, February 15, 2011.
  4. ^ "Booker sponsors Man drop Asian Literary Prize". The Daily Telegraph. 17 October 2012.
  5. ^ "Asia's top literary award looking for new sponsor". France24. October 17, 2012. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
  6. ^ "2007 Man Asian Literary Prize Winner Announced". Man Asian Literary Prize. Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved November 11, 2007.
  7. ^ a b "Five authors make the shortlist for inaugural prize". Man Asian Literary Prize. Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved October 26, 2007.
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  10. ^ James Pomfret (17 November 2009). "Chinese writer Su Tong wins Asia's top literary prize". Reuters. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  11. ^ "2009 Man Asian Literary Prize – Shortlist Announced". Man Asian Literary Prize. Archived from the original on July 24, 2011. Retrieved September 16, 2009.
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  13. ^ Doreta Lau (18 May 2011). "Author Bi Feiyu Wins Man Asian Prize". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
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  15. ^ Alison Flood (23 June 2015). "Man Asian literary prize winner apologises after plagiarism row". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
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  18. ^ "Tan Twan Eng scoops Asia's top literary prize". Man Asian Prize website. March 15, 2013. Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
  19. ^ Richard Lea (March 14, 2013). "Tan Twan Eng wins Man Asian prize". The Guardian. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
  20. ^ Alison Flood (January 9, 2013). "Man Asian literary prize shortlist stages Booker re-match". The Guardian. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
  21. ^ Staff writer (December 18, 2012). "Man Asian Literary Prize Announces Long List". Poets & Writers. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
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