2007 Man Asian Literary Prize

I am truly glad to have read that Dr. Jose Dalisay made it to the longlist of this year's (and the inaugural year) of the 2007 Man Asian Literary Prize (Asia's version of the Man Booker Prize). I wonder why only Dr. Dalisay was the only Filipino who entered the competition. There are a lot of outstanding novelists in the Philippines.

Here is the longlist:

1. Tulsi Badrinath, The Living God
2. Sanjay Bahadur, The Sound Of Water
3. Kankana Basu, Cappuccino Dusk
4. Sanjiv Bhatla, InJustice
5. Shahbano Bilgrami, Without Dreams
6. Saikat Chakraborty, The Amnesiac
7. Jose Dalisay Jr., Soledad's Sister
8. Reeti Gadekar, Families at Home
9. Xiaolu Guo, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
10. Ameena Hussein, The Moon in the Water
11. Nu Nu Yi Inwa, Smile As They Bow
12. Jiang Rong, Wolf Totem
13. Hitomi Kanehara, Autofiction
14. N S Madhavan, Litanies of Dutch Battery
15. Laxmi Narayan Mishra, The Little God
16. Mo Yan, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
17. Nalini Rajan, The Pangolin's Tale
18. Chiew-Siah Tei, Little Hut of Leaping Fishes
19. Shreekumar Varma, Maria's Room
20. Anuradha Vijayakrishnan, Seeing The Girl
21. Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, Pichaikuppan
22. Xu Xi, Habit of a Foreign Sky
23. Egoyan Zheng, Fleeting Light

The judges are Andre Aciman, Adrienne Clarkson, and Nicholas Jose.