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The 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize - Longlist Announced

Hong Kong, 24 July 2009 – The Administrative Committee for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize has today

announced the longlist of works for this prize:

Gopilal Acharya, With a Stone in My Heart

Omair Ahmad, Jimmy the Terrorist

Siddharth Chowdhury, Day Scholar

Kishwar Desai, Witness the Night

Samuel Ferrer, The Last Gods of Indochine

Eric Gamalinda, The Descartes Highlands

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

Sriram Karri, The Autobiography of a Mad Nation

Nitasha Kaul, Residue

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

K. Srilata, Table for Four

Su Tong, The Redemption Boat

Oyungerel Tsedevdamba, Shadow of the Red Star

This longlist of 24 unpublished works of Asian fiction in English will be reviewed and evaluated by the 2009 Man

Asian Literary Prize judges, who will announce a shortlist of works in October 2009. The winner will be announced

on Monday, 16 November at an awards ceremony in Hong Kong.