Man Asian Literary Prize

"The Man Asian Literary Prize was founded in 2007. It is an annual literary award given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published in the previous calendar year. The judges choose a longlist of 10 to 15 titles announced in December, followed by a shortlist of 5 to 6 titles announced in February, and a winner is awarded in March. The winning author is awarded USD 30,000 and the translator (if any) USD 5,000. Submissions are invited through publishers based in any country."

The longlist for this year's award was announced yesterday:

Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu
Way to Go by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Dahanu Road by Anosh Irani
Serious Men by Manu Joseph
The Thing About Thugs by Tabish Khair
Tiger Hills by Sarita Mandanna
The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe
Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa
Monkey-man by Usha K.R.
Below the Crying Mountain by Criselda Yabes

I haven't read any of these books, but I do own The Changeling and Three Sisters. More info:

Man Asian Literary Prize

Thanks Darryl! The only one I have read is Hotel Iris, which I thought had quite a different feel to it from The Housekeeper and the Professor, the only other book by Ogawa that I have read so far. The Thing About Thugs sounds intriguing but that could be because I love reading books set in Victorian London.

Haven't read any of these or any of these authors. Time to take more of a look.

The shortlist for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize was announced yesterday:

Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu
Serious Men by Manu Joseph
The Thing About Thugs by Tabish Khair
The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe
Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa

The winner will be announced in Hong Kong on March 17th.

More info: http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/

Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu is the winner of this year's prize. I bought this novel in San Francisco last fall; I'll read it soon, and post a review of it here.

2011 Man Asian Literary Prize Longlist announced:

The judges for this year’s Prize are Pulitzer-prize finalist and author of The Surrendered, Chang-rae Lee, and Vikas Swarup, author of Q&A which
was filmed as the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire. The judging panel of three is completed by BBC Special Correspondent Razia Iqbal, who is also chair judge.

90 books were submitted for entry in 2011 and the longlist of 12 books is as follows: AUTHOR, Country – Title (Publisher)

JAMIL AHMAD, Pakistan – The Wandering Falcon (Penguin India/Hamish Hamilton)
TAHMIMA ANAM, Bangladesh – The Good Muslim (Penguin India/Hamish Hamilton)
JAHNAVI BARUA, India – Rebirth (Penguin India/Penguin Books)
RAHUL BHATTACHARYA, India – The Sly Company of People Who Care (Pan Macmillan/Picador)
MAHMOUD DOWLATABADI, Iran – The Colonel (Haus Publishing)
AMITAV GHOSH, India – River of Smoke (John Murray/Penguin India/Hamish Hamilton)
HARUKI MURAKAMI, Japan -1Q84 (Harvill Secker)
ANURADHA ROY, India– The Folded Earth (Quercus/Maclehose Press/Hachette India)
KYUNG-SOOK SHIN, South Korea – Please Look After Mom (Alfred A. Knopf)
TARUN J TEJPAL, India – The Valley of Masks (HarperCollins India/4th Estate)
YAN LIANKE, China – Dream of Ding Village (Grove Atlantic)
BANANA YOSHIMOTO, Japan – The Lake (Melville House)

The judges choose a longlist of 10 to 15 titles announced in October, followed by a shortlist of 5 to 6 titles announced in January, and a winner is awarded in March. The winning author is awarded USD 30,000 and the translator (if any) USD 5,000.

Thanks, Kerry. I saw the announcement last week but forgot to post the longlist.

I've read The Wandering Falcon and River of Smoke, which were both very good. I'm planning to read The Good Muslim and 1Q84 this month, and I have The Colonel and Dream of Ding Village at home, waiting to be read.

The shortlist was announced earlier this month:

JAMIL AHMAD, Pakistan - The Wandering Falcon
JAHNAVI BARUA, India - Rebirth
RAHUL BHATTACHARYA, India - The Sly Company of People Who Care
AMITAV GHOSH, India - River of Smoke
KYUNG-SOOK SHIN, South Korea - Please Look After Mom
YAN LIANKE, China - Dream of Ding Village
BANANA YOSHIMOTO, Japan - The Lake

A bit late with this one: Please Look After Mom is the winner of this year's award.

http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/kyung-sook-shin/

The longlist for this year's Man Asian Literary Prize was announced today:

Goat Days – Benyamin (India)
Between Clay and Dust - Musharraf Ali Farooqi (Pakistan)
Another Country - Anjali Joseph (India)
The Briefcase – Hiromi Kawakami (Japan)
Thinner Than Skin - Uzma Aslam Khan (Pakistan)
Ru - Kim Thúy (Vietnam / Canada*)
Black Flower - Young-Ha Kim (South Korea)
Island of a Thousand Mirrors - Nayomi Munaweera (Sri Lanka)
Silent House - Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
Honour - Elif Shafak (Turkey)
Northern Girls - Sheng Keyi (China)
The Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng (Malaysia)
The Road To Urbino – Roma Tearne (Sri Lanka / U.K.*)
Narcopolis - Jeet Thayil (India)
The Bathing Women – Tie Ning (China)

"The shortlist of 5 or 6 titles will be announced on January 9th 2013. The winner, who will receive USD 30,000, will be announced on March 14th 2013 at a black tie Prize Dinner in Hong Kong, the home of the Prize."

More info: http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org

The shortlist for this year's Man Asian Literary Prize was announced today:

Between Clay and Dust - Musharraf Ali Farooqi (Pakistan)
The Briefcase – Hiromi Kawakami (Japan)
Silent House - Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
The Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng (Malaysia)
Narcopolis - Jeet Thayil (India)

The winner will be announced on March 13th. I've read The Garden of Evening Mists and Narcopolis, but I don't own and haven't read the other three shortlisted novels. My favorite book reviewer, Maya Jaggi, is the chair of judges for this year's award, so I'll check out these three books.

You mean shortlist (longlist was Dec 4)

>12 bergs47: Thanks; I've corrected my post.

After barely losing out on last year's Booker Prize, Tan Twan Eng's second novel The Garden of Evening Mists was selected as the winner of this year's Man Asian Literary Prize:

Tan Twan Eng scoops Asia’s top literary prize

2007:
Winner: Jiang Rong Wolf Totem (狼图腾) Chinese (Howard Goldblatt)

Shortlist:
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:
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:
Winner: Miguel Syjuco Ilustrado

Shortlist:
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:
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:
Winner: Su Tong The Boat to Redemption (河岸) Chinese (Howard Goldblatt)

Shortlist:
Omair Ahmad Jimmy the Terrorist
Siddhartha Chowdhury Day Scholar
Eric Gamalinda The Descartes Highlands
Nitasha Kaul Residue

Longlist:
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:
Winner: 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:
Winner: Shin Kyung-sook Please Look After Mom (엄마를 부탁해) Korean (Chi-young Kim)

Shortlist:
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:
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:
Winner: Tan Twan Eng The Garden of Evening Mists

Shortlist:

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:
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)

The Man Asian Literary Prize was sponsored by Man Group plc., the 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.