# Man Asian Literary Prize

The Man Asian Literary Prize was an annual literary award between 2007 and 2012, given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published in the previous calendar year. It is awarded to writers who are citizens or residents of one of the following 34 (out of 50) Asian countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, The Maldives, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Submissions are invited through publishers who are entitled to each submit two novels by August 31 each year. Entry forms are available from May.
From 2010 to 2012, the Man Asian Literary Prize awarded USD 30,000 to the author and an additional USD 5,000 to the translator (if any). For the prize of the first three years of its running, from 2007 to 2009, the Man Asian Literary Prize awarded USD 10,000 (author)/ 3,000 USD (translator) to a novel written by an Asian writer of the elective countries, either in English or translated into English, and yet unpublished. Submissions were made by the authors. The reason given by the Prize for the changes introduced in 2010 include the difficulty in finding talented unpublished authors. With the new format, which has shortlisted and winning novels already available to the literary community, media and general public, the Man Asian Literary Prize recognises “the best English works each year by Asian authors and aims to significantly raise international awareness and appreciation of Asian literature.”
The Man Asian Literary Prize was sponsored by Man Group plc., title sponsor of the Man Booker Prize. It was announced in October 2012 that Man Group would no longer sponsor the prize after the 2012 winner was announced in 2013.

## Winners and honorees

| Year | Result | Author | Work | Original language & translator(s) |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Winner | Jiang Rong | Wolf Totem (狼图腾) | Chinese (Howard Goldblatt) |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Shortlist |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Shortlist | Jose Dalisay Jr. | Soledad's Sister | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Shortlist | Reeti Gadekar | Families at Home | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Shortlist | Nu Nu Yi | Smile As They Bow (ပြုံး၍လည်း ကန်တော့ခံတော်မူပါ၊ ရယ်၍လည်း ကန်တော့ခံတော်မူပါ) | Burmese (Alfred Birnbaum, Thi Thi Aye) |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Shortlist | Xu Xi | Habit of a Foreign Sky | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Tulsi Badrinath | The Living God | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Sanjay Bahadur | The Sound Of Water | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Kankana Basu | Cappuccino Dusk | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Sanjiv Bhatla | InJustice | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Shahbano Bilgrami | Without Dreams | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Saikat Chakraborty | The Amnesiac | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Xiaolu Guo | 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Ameena Hussein | The Moon in the Water | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Hitomi Kanehara | Autofiction (オートフィクション) | Japanese (David James Karashima) |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | N. S. Madhavan | Litanies of Dutch Battery (ലന്തൻബത്തേരിയിലെ ലുത്തിനിയകൾ) | Malayalam (Rajesh Rajamohan) |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Laxmi Narayan Mishra | The Little God | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Mo Yan | Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (生死疲劳) | Chinese (Howard Goldblatt) |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Nalini Rajan | The Pangolin’s Tale | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Chiew-Siah Tei | Little Hut of Leaping Fishes | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Shreekumar Varma | Maria’s Room | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Anuradha Vijayakrishnan | Seeing The Girl | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Sujatha Vijayaraghavan | The Silent One | |
| 2007 (1st) Judging panel:André AcimanAdrienne ClarksonNicholas Jose | Longlist | Egoyan Zheng | Fleeting Light | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Winner | Miguel Syjuco | Ilustrado | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Shortlist |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Shortlist | Kavery Nambisan | The Story that Must Not be Told | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Shortlist | Siddharth Shanghvi | The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Shortlist | Yu Hua | Brothers (兄弟) | Chinese (Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Carlos Rojas) |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Shortlist | Alfred Yuson | The Music Child | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist | Tulsi Badrinath | Melting Love | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist | Hans Billimoria | Ugly tree | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist | Ian Casocot | Sugar Land | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist | Han Dong | Banished! (扎根) | Chinese (Nicky Harman) |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist | Anjum Hasan | Neti, Neti | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist | Daisy Hasan | The To-Let House | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist | Abdullah Hussein | The Afghan Girl | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist | Tsutomu Igarashi | To the Temple | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist | Rupa Krishnan | Something Wicked This Way Comes | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist | Murong Xuecun | Leave Me Alone, Chengdu (成都，今夜请将我遗忘) | Chinese (Harvey Thomlinson) |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist | Sumana Roy | Love in the Chicken's Neck | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist | Vaibhav Saini | On the Edge of Pandemonium | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist | Salma | Midnight Tales | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist | Lakambini Sitoy | Sweet Haven | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist | Sarayu Srivatsa | The Last Pretense | |
| 2008 (2nd) Judging panel:Adrienne ClarksonPankaj MishraNicholas Jose | Longlist | Amit Varma | My Friend, Sancho |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Winner | Su Tong | The Boat to Redemption (河岸) | Chinese (Howard Goldblatt) |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Shortlist |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Shortlist | Omair Ahmad | Jimmy the Terrorist | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Shortlist | Siddhartha Chowdhury | Day Scholar | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Shortlist | Eric Gamalinda | The Descartes Highlands | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Shortlist | Nitasha Kaul | Residue | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Gopilal Acharya | With a Stone in My Heart | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Kishwar Desai | Witness the Night | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Samuel Ferrer | The Last Gods of Indochine | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Ram Govardhan | Rough with the Smooth | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Kanishka Gupta | History of Hate | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Kameroon Rasheed Ismeer | Memoirs of a Terrorist | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Ratika Kapur | Overwinter | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Mariam Karim | The Bereavement of Agnes Desmoulins | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Karri Sriram | The Autobiography of a Mad Nation | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | R. Zamora Linmark | Leche | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Mario I. Miclat | Secrets of the Eighteen Mansions | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Clarissa V. Militante | Different Countries | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Varuna Mohite | Omigod | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Dipika Mukherjee | Thunder Demons | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Hena Pillai | Blackland | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Roan Ching-yueh | Lin Xiu-Tzi and her Family | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Edgar Calabia Samar | Eight Muses of the Fall (Walong Diwata ng Pagkahulog) | Filipino (Mikael de Lara Co, Sasha Martinez) |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | K. Srilata | Table for Four | |
| 2009 (3rd) Judging panel:Colm TóibínGish JenPankaj Mishra | Longlist | Oyungerel Tsedevdamba | Shadow of the Red Star | |
| 2010 (4th) Judging panel:Monica AliHomi K. BhabhaHsu-Ming Teo |
| 2010 (4th) Judging panel:Monica AliHomi K. BhabhaHsu-Ming Teo | Winner | Bi Feiyu | Three Sisters (玉米) | Chinese (Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin) |
| 2010 (4th) Judging panel:Monica AliHomi K. BhabhaHsu-Ming Teo | Shortlist |
| 2010 (4th) Judging panel:Monica AliHomi K. BhabhaHsu-Ming Teo | Shortlist | Manu Joseph | Serious Men | |
| 2010 (4th) Judging panel:Monica AliHomi K. BhabhaHsu-Ming Teo | Shortlist | Tabish Khair | The Thing About Thugs | |
| 2010 (4th) Judging panel:Monica AliHomi K. BhabhaHsu-Ming Teo | Shortlist | Kenzaburō Ōe | The Changeling (取り替え子) | Japanese (Deborah Boliver Boehm) |
| 2010 (4th) Judging panel:Monica AliHomi K. BhabhaHsu-Ming Teo | Shortlist | Yōko Ogawa | Hotel Iris (ホテル・アイリス) | Japanese (Stephen Snyder) |
| 2010 (4th) Judging panel:Monica AliHomi K. BhabhaHsu-Ming Teo | Longlist | Upamanyu Chatterjee | Way to Go | |
| 2010 (4th) Judging panel:Monica AliHomi K. BhabhaHsu-Ming Teo | Longlist | Anosh Irani | Dahanu Road | |
| 2010 (4th) Judging panel:Monica AliHomi K. BhabhaHsu-Ming Teo | Longlist | Sarita Mandanna | Tiger Hills | |
| 2010 (4th) Judging panel:Monica AliHomi K. BhabhaHsu-Ming Teo | Longlist | Usha K.R. | Monkey-man | |
| 2010 (4th) Judging panel:Monica AliHomi K. BhabhaHsu-Ming Teo | Longlist | Criselda Yabes | Below the Crying Mountain | |
| 2011 (5th) Judging panel:Razia Iqbal, chairChang-Rae LeeVikas Swarup | Longlist |
| 2011 (5th) Judging panel:Razia Iqbal, chairChang-Rae LeeVikas Swarup | Winner | Shin Kyung-sook | Please Look After Mom (엄마를 부탁해) | Korean (Chi-young Kim) |
| 2011 (5th) Judging panel:Razia Iqbal, chairChang-Rae LeeVikas Swarup | Shortlist |
| 2011 (5th) Judging panel:Razia Iqbal, chairChang-Rae LeeVikas Swarup | Shortlist | Jamil Ahmad | The Wandering Falcon | |
| 2011 (5th) Judging panel:Razia Iqbal, chairChang-Rae LeeVikas Swarup | Shortlist | Jahnavi Barua | Rebirth | |
| 2011 (5th) Judging panel:Razia Iqbal, chairChang-Rae LeeVikas Swarup | Shortlist | Rahul Bhattacharya | The Sly Company of People Who Care | |
| 2011 (5th) Judging panel:Razia Iqbal, chairChang-Rae LeeVikas Swarup | Shortlist | Amitav Ghosh | River of Smoke | |
| 2011 (5th) Judging panel:Razia Iqbal, chairChang-Rae LeeVikas Swarup | Shortlist | Yan Lianke | Dream of Ding Village (丁庄梦) | Chinese (Cindy Carter) |
| 2011 (5th) Judging panel:Razia Iqbal, chairChang-Rae LeeVikas Swarup | Shortlist | Banana Yoshimoto | The Lake (みずうみ) | Japanese (Michael Emmerich) |
| 2011 (5th) Judging panel:Razia Iqbal, chairChang-Rae LeeVikas Swarup | Longlist |
| 2011 (5th) Judging panel:Razia Iqbal, chairChang-Rae LeeVikas Swarup | Longlist | Tahmima Anam | The Good Muslim | |
| 2011 (5th) Judging panel:Razia Iqbal, chairChang-Rae LeeVikas Swarup | Longlist | Mahmoud Dowlatabadi | The Colonel (زوال کلنل) | Persian (Tom Patterdale) |
| 2011 (5th) Judging panel:Razia Iqbal, chairChang-Rae LeeVikas Swarup | Longlist | Haruki Murakami | 1Q84 | Japanese (Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel) |
| 2011 (5th) Judging panel:Razia Iqbal, chairChang-Rae LeeVikas Swarup | Longlist | Anuradha Roy | The Folded Earth | |
| 2011 (5th) Judging panel:Razia Iqbal, chairChang-Rae LeeVikas Swarup | Longlist | Tarun Tejpal | The Valley of Masks | |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Winner | Tan Twan Eng | The Garden of Evening Mists | |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Shortlist |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Shortlist | Musharraf Ali Farooqi | Between Clay and Dust | |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Shortlist | Hiromi Kawakami | The Briefcase (センセイの鞄) | Japanese (Allison Powell) |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Shortlist | Orhan Pamuk | Silent House (Sessiz Ev) | Turkish (Robert Finn) |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Shortlist | Jeet Thayil | Narcopolis | |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Longlist |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Longlist | Benyamin | Goat Days (ആടുജീവിതം) | Malayalam (Joseph Koyippally) |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Longlist | Anjali Joseph | Another Country | |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Longlist | Uzma Aslam Khan | Thinner Than Skin | |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Longlist | Kim Thúy | Ru | French (Sheila Fischman) |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Longlist | Kim Young-ha | Black Flower (검은 꽃) | Korean (Charles La Shure) |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Longlist | Nayomi Munaweera | Island of a Thousand Mirrors | |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Longlist | Elif Şafak | Honour | |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Longlist | Sheng Keyi | Northern Girls: Life Goes On (北妹) | Chinese (Shelly Bryant) |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Longlist | Roma Tearne | The Road to Urbino | |
| 2012 (6th) Judging panel: Maya Jaggi, chairMonique TruongVikram Chandra | Longlist | Tie Ning | The Bathing Women (大浴女) | Chinese (Hongling Zhang, Jason Sommer) |