A panel of distinguished international critics and writers will judge the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize. The judges are acclaimed novelist Monica Ali, prominent critic, Harvard literary authority Homi Bhabha, and award-winning writer Hsu-Ming Teo.
Judges announced writers from Japan, China, India and the Philippines in the long-list for the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize. Japanese writer, Kenzaburo Oe, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994 also amongst the 10 long-listed. Six Indians feature in the illustrious list of literary honour.
2010 Long-list
- 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
The Man Asian Literary Prize has a new format for 2010. The Man Asian Literary Prize has been open to all novels by Asian writers published in English each year. The cash value of the prize increases to USD 30,000. Previously, the prize awarded USD 10,000 to the best Asian novel not yet published in English. The new format allows the literary community, media and general public to be fully involved in reading, discussing and comparing the books which the judges are considering.
Previous winners of the Man Asian Literary Prize were Jiang Rong for his novel Wolf Totem (2007), Miguel Syjuco for Illustrado (2008), and Su Tong for The Boat to Redemption (2009).
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