MAN ASIAN LONGLIST ANNOUNCED

This report from the Guardian lists 23 authors including Xiaolu Guo, author of 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth and the earlier Orange Prize shortlisted A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary.

Here is a review of the earlier title, also from the Guardian. (What a great newspaper, so much support for the written word).

Here is the website for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Note that the longlist includes a majority of women writers.

And here is Ixaolu Guo's own website.