Browse Archives

By Category

By Date

Bastiat Prize 2007 Winner

Recent entries

Lovers And The Box Office

DNA reports: Ranbir [Kapoor] and Deepika [Padukone] are not showing any interest in doing films together after seeing what…

Salt And Sugar

If even MadMan makes mistakes, there’s clearly hope for lesser beings. I’m off to make the perfect Maggi now.…

The Inside Story Of The Booker Prize

In a superb feature, “Tears, tiffs and triumphs”, The Guardian has persuaded “a [Booker Prize] judge from every year…

Face

Here’s the latest short story by Alice Munro. I’m in awe. * Earlier…

The Quality Of Obituary Writing

This is a fine post. If I was a publisher, I’d want to know more about Asal Tamil Penn.…

22 July, 2008

The Longlist For The Man Asian Literary Prize 2008…

... has been announced. My first novel, “My Friend, Sancho”, is one of the longlisted books.

I should call it a novel-in-progress, actually. Authors were allowed to enter 10,000 words of their manuscript for the prize, and I made the longlist on the basis of my first three chapters. I need to submit my entire manuscript by August 1 to remain in contention for the prize, and I’m not quite done with it yet. Thus, for the next few days, I take a break from India Uncut.

I know this will be hard, but the rewards will be reaped by you as well, so hang in there. Also, if you’re desperate for WTF entertainment, there’s Lok Sabha TV. They outdo Bollywood, they do—and it’s all for real.

PS: I’ll write more on my book, and the process of writing it, in a later post—probably at the start of August.

Posted by Amit Varma in Arts and entertainment | My Friend Sancho | Personal

Copyright (C) India Uncut - http://indiauncut.com
All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission. Email: amitblogs@gmail.com
This article is permanently archived at:
http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/the-longlist-for-the-man-asian-literary-prize-2008/