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India-born writer and activist Indra Sinha’s book Anima’s People is in the long list for the Australia-Asia Literary Award worth $ 76,244 along with Nobel laureate J.M Coetzee and Japan’s Haruki Murakami. Sinha’s book, a moving account of the Bhopal gas tragedy victims, is already the winner of 2008 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for best book from Europe and South Asia. It was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize-2007. Pakistan-born author Mohsin Hamid’s book The Reluctant Fundamentalist is also in the list. The award is for a work of fiction written by an author living in Australia or Asia, or a work primarily set in Australia or in an Asian country. It can be published electronically or in print, the organisers said. The other writers, who have made it to the list include the recent Booker prize contender Michelle de Kretser, Australian authors David Malouf and Janet Turner Hospital, Matthew Condon, Ceridwen Dover, Rodney Hall, Mireille Juchau and Alex Miller. Melbourne literary critic Peter Craven, Pakistani-born author Kamila Shamsie and the Hong Kong-based founder of the Asia Literary Review Nury Vittachi would judge the entries. The winner of the award will be announced on November 21. — PTI
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CLOSE on the heels of an
Indian writer Arvind Adiga bagging the prestigious Booker prize, another
Indian Indra Sinha is in reckoning for the richest literary award in
Australia.