Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manu Herbstein
A writer's notability is inextricably linked to his works (See  point #4).  Winning the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book is prima facie evidence of meeting point 4 as having "won significant critical attention".  This Google Book http://books.google.com/books?id=hNvgAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Manu+Herbstein%22&dq=%22Manu+Herbstein%22&hl=en&ei=rOLJTNb8LoSsnAfKkfH8Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg hit does not have a pewview, but the little snippet available shows that there are print sources available to expand this biography
— User:Whpq, 21:06, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:AUTHOR (Wikipedia:Notability)