{"id":2307,"date":"2011-11-01T12:32:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T17:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:59","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:59","slug":"2011-man-asian-literary-prize-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/01\/2011-man-asian-literary-prize-longlist\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 Man Asian Literary Prize longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/42163\/2011-man-asian-literary-prize-longlist-includes-two-melville-house-titles\/\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/man+asian-235x204.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktrade.info\/index.php\/showarticle\/36866\/nl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a>, the organizers called the list \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the most diverse to be announced in its five year history, showcasing a panoply of tales from right across Asia.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the full list:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 JAMIL AHMAD, Pakistan \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Wandering Falcon (Penguin India\/Hamish Hamilton)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 TAHMIMA ANAM, Bangladesh \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Good Muslim (Penguin India\/Hamish Hamilton)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 JAHNAVI BARUA, India \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Rebirth (Penguin India\/Penguin Books)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 RAHUL BHATTACHARYA, India \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Sly Company of People Who Care (Pan Macmillan\/Picador)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 MAHMOUD DOWLATABADI, Iran \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Colonel (US: Melville House, UK: Haus Publishing)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 AMITAV GHOSH, India \u00e2\u20ac\u201c River of Smoke (John Murray\/Penguin India\/Hamish Hamilton)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 HARUKI MURAKAMI, Japan -1Q84 (Harvill Secker)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 ANURADHA ROY, India- The Folded Earth (Quercus\/Maclehose Press\/Hacehette India)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 KYUNG-SOOK SHIN, South Korea \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Please Look After Mom (Alfred A. Knopf)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 TARUN J TEJPAL, India \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Valley of Masks (HarperCollins India\/4th Estate)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 YAN LIANKE, China \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Dream of Ding Village (Grove Atlantic)<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 BANANA YOSHIMOTO, Japan \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Lake (Melville House)<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What this longlist shows is that if we are looking for books of the epic scale and stature of the great European nineteenth century novels, we must turn to Asia,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <strong>David Parker<\/strong>, chair of the directors of the prize. He says the nominees \u00e2\u20ac\u0153have a scale and ambition we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t often see in Western writing these days. Could it be that as the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economic centre of gravity is moving eastwards, so too is its artistic energy and ambition?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/42163\/2011-man-asian-literary-prize-longlist-includes-two-melville-house-titles\/\">Melville House Books<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; In a press release, the organizers called the list \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the most diverse to be announced in its five year history, showcasing a panoply of tales from right across Asia.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the full list: \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 JAMIL AHMAD, Pakistan \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Wandering Falcon (Penguin India\/Hamish Hamilton) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 TAHMIMA ANAM, Bangladesh \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Good Muslim (Penguin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/01\/2011-man-asian-literary-prize-longlist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2011 Man Asian Literary Prize longlist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[325,314,518],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","tag-325","tag-award","tag-manasianliteraryprize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10091,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions\/10091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}