Man Asian book prize
The long list for the Man Asian prize has been announced. This is the second year for the $10,000 prize which is intended to lift the international visibillity of Asian fiction.
The long list nominations are as follows:
Melting Love by Tulsi Badrinath
Ugly Tree by Hans Billimoria
Sugar Land by Ian Rosales Casocot
Banished! by Han Dong
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
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
The Music Child by Alfred A Yuson
