The judges have announced writers from Japan, China, India and the Philippines in the longlist for the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize.
The longlist includes Japanese writer, Kenzaburo Oe, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994.
2010 Longlist
Way to Go by Upamanyu Chatterjee
The Thing About Thugs by Tabish Khair
Tiger Hills by Sarita Mandanna
The Changeling by Kenzaburo Oe
Below the Crying Mountain by Criselda Yabes
The three distinguished judges for this year’s Prize are Monica Ali, Homi K. Bhabha and Hsu-Ming Teo. The Man Asian Literary Prize is open to all novels by Asian writers published in English each year. The cash value of the prize is USD 30,000. The winner will be awarded in March 2011.
