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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.Entry Rules . Man Asian Literary Prize. Retrieved May 17, 2011. Submissions are invited through publishers who are entitled to each submit two novels by Aug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Group
Man Group plc is an active investment management business listed on the London Stock Exchange. It provides a range of funds across liquid and private markets for institutional and private investors globally and is the world's largest publicly traded hedge fund company, reporting $151.4 billion in funds under management as of March 2022. The firm is headquartered at Riverbank House in London and employs over 1,400 people in various locations worldwide.Global 50 Funds of Hedge Funds The Hedgefund Journal, June 2009. The company was a sponsor of the from 2002 to 2019. History The company was found ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xu Xi (writer)
Xu Xi (born 1954), originally named Xu Su Xi (许素细), is an English language novelist from Hong Kong. She is also the Hong Kong regional editor of Routledge's ''Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literature'' (second edition, 2005) and the editor or co-editor of the following anthologies of Hong Kong writing in English: ''Fifty-Fifty: New Hong Kong Writing'' (2008), ''City Stage: Hong Kong Playwriting in English'' (2005), and ''City Voices: Hong Kong Writing in English Prose & Poetry from 1945 to the present''. Her work has also been anthologized internationally. Hong Kong magazines such as ''Muse (Hong Kong Magazine), Muse'' run her writings from time to time and her fiction and essays have appeared recently in various literary journals such as the ''Kenyon Review" (Ohio), ''Ploughshares" (Boston), The Four Quarters Magazine (India), ''Ninth Letter" (Illinois), ''Silk Road Review" (Oregon), ''Toad Suck Review" (Arkansas), ''Writing & Pedagogy" (Sheffield, UK),''Arts & Letters" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nalini Rajan
Nalini (Devanagari: नलिनी) is a female gender Indian given name, which means "lotus", "goddess Gayatri","mother of Vedas", "sweet nectar", "Amrit", Feminine "lily" in Sanskrit.''Baby Names''"Nalini" Retrieved on 9 January 2016. The name may refer to: * Nalini Selva (actress) (born 1984), Indian actress * Nalini Ambady (1959–2013), Indian psychologist * Nalini Anantharaman (born 1976), French mathematician * Nalini Bala Devi (1898–1977), Indian writer * Nalini Balbir (born 1955), French scholar * Nalini Bekal (born 1954), Indian writer * Nalini Chatterjee (died 1942), Indian judge * Nalini Jameela (born 1955), Indian writer * Nalini Jaywant (1926–2010), Indian actress * Nalini Joshi (born 1959), Australian mathematician * Nalini Krishan (born 1977), Fijian actress * Nalini Malani (born 1946), Indian artist * Nalini Nadkarni (born 1954), American ecologist * Nalini Selvaraj (1944–2014), Indian writer * Nalini Priyadarshni (born 1974) Indian poet * Nalini Sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life And Death Are Wearing Me Out
''Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out'' () is a 2006 novel by Chinese writer Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012. The book is a historical fiction exploring China's development during the latter half of the 20th century through the eyes of a noble and generous landowner who is killed and reincarnated as various farm animals in rural China. It has drawn praise from critics, and was the recipient of the inaugural Newman Prize for Chinese Literature in 2009. An English translation was published in 2008. This landlord is the protagonist of this book, Ximen Nao. After he was killed, he went through a total of six reincarnations. He turns into a donkey, a cow, a pig, a dog, a monkey in turn, and finally in 2000 he is reborn as a baby with a very large head. In this novel, the big-headed baby, who is one of the narrators of the story, tells his grandfather, Lan Jiefang, how he felt when he was reincarnated as an animal in each life. The story of the landlord Ximen Haou' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mo Yan
Guan Moye (; born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, ), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine ''TIME'' referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers", and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller. In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". He is best known to Western readers for his 1986 novel '' Red Sorghum'', the first two parts of which were adapted as the Golden Bear-winning film '' Red Sorghum'' (1988). He won the 2005 International Nonino Prize in Italy. In 2009, he was the first recipient of the University of Oklahoma's Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. Early life Mo Yan was born in February of 1955 into a peasant family in Ping'an Village, Gaomi Township, northeast of Shandong Province, the People's R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laxmi Narayan Mishra
Laxmi Narayan Mishra (17 December 1903–19 August 1987) was born in the village of Basti in Maunath Bhanjan district, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Mishra was a popular play writer of Hindi literature. He was a theatre personality of Uttar Pradesh. His works became very popular between 1930 and 1950, and they were frequently staged by schools, colleges, and amateur groups. Main Works *Ashok-1926 *Sanyasi-1930 *Rakshas ka mandir-1931 (Temple of Demons) *Muktika rahasya-1932 (Secret of Freedom) *Sindur ki Holi-1933 (Holi with Vermillion) *Garuda Dhawaj-1945 (Flag with Garida"s Figure) *Vatsaraj-1950 *Chakravyuh-1953 (Chakra formation) *Samaj ke Stambha (Pillars of Society) *Gudiya ka Ghar(A Doll's House) *Chakravyuha ( Play based on Mahabharata Character Abhimanyu, printed by kaushambhi prakashan, Dara gunj, Allahabad 1973, 25th edition) See also * List of Indian writers *Sahitya Academy The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autofiction (novel)
''Autofiction'' is a 2006 novel by Japanese author , translated into English by David James Karashima and is a work of "autobiographical fiction". The novel follows Rin in reverse chronological order, from age 22 all the way back to 15. Kanehara recalls some of her previous experiences of living without a home, and various incidents of drug addictions to narrate the plot. Through her past sexual experiences, Rin's mind has begun to fracture, causing her profound insecurity regarding the relationships around her. At age 22, she is returning from her honeymoon only to become jealous of the air stewardess serving her husband. When he excuses himself to go to the bathroom, Rin's uncontrollable conscience begins to stir, believing he's gone to have sex with the stewardess. As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that Rin's past is a complicated one; filled with grand moments of distrust, abuse relationships and substance abuse. Kanehara adds a gritty tone to her writing. much like a pin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitomi Kanehara
is a Japanese novelist. Her novel ''Hebi ni piasu'' (''Snakes and Earrings'') won the Shōsetsu Subaru Literary Prize and the Akutagawa Prize, and sold over a million copies in Japan. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages worldwide. Early life Kanehara was born in Tokyo, Japan. During elementary school she spent a year in San Francisco with her father. At age 11, she dropped out of school, and at age 15 she left home. After leaving home, Kanehara pursued her passion for writing. Her father, Mizuhito Kanehara, a literary professor and translator of children's literature, continued to support her. Career Kanehara wrote her first novel, ''Hebi ni piasu'' (''Snakes and Earrings''), at the age of 21. The novel won the Shōsetsu Subaru Literary Prize and the Akutagawa Prize (judged by novelist Ryū Murakami), and became a Japanese bestseller, going on to sell more than one million copies. Kanehara and fellow 2003 Akutagawa Prize honoree Risa Wataya remain th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ameena Hussein
Ameena Hussein (born 1964) is a Sri Lankan sociologist, novelist, editor. Her collections of short stories, ''Fifteen'' and ''Zillij'', were nominated for several awards. Biography Ameena Hussein was born in 1964 at Colpetty (now known as Kollupitiya), in the Western Province of Sri Lanka. Her father, Madhi Hussein, was a lawyer while her mother, Marina Caffoor, was a housewife. Ameena has a younger sister. Her parents influenced both of their daughters to maintain the reading habit from a young age. Ameena Hussein was educated at the St.Bridget's Convent, which is situated in Kollupitiya. She was not a good student and was a slow writer. Literature career Hussein was generally regarded as a slow writer and it took about eight years to write her first novel, ''The Moon in the Water''. Despite this, her first novel on publication received international recognition and was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2007. She has published two award-winning collections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo FRSL () born 20 November 1973) is a Chinese-born British novelist, memoirist and film-maker, who explores migration, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism, translation and transnational identities. Guo has directed a dozen films including documentaries and fictions. Her most well-known films include She, a Chinese and We Went to Wonderland. Her novels have been translated into 28 languages. '' Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China'' won the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017. In 2013, she was named as one of ''Granta'' magazine's Best of Young British Novelists, a list drawn up once a decade. She is one of the inaugural fellows of the Columbia Institute of Ideas and Imagination in Paris, 2018, and a jury member for the Man Booker Prize 2019. She is currently a visiting professor and Writer-in-Residence at Columbia University in New York City. Early life Xiaolu Guo grew up with her illiterate grandparents in a village of fishermen, then wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saikat Chakraborty
Soikat ( bn, সৈকত) is a male given name meaning (sea) shore, beach or bank. It may refer to: * Saikat (umpire) or Sharfuddoula Ibne Shahid (born 1976), Bangladeshi cricketer and international cricket umpire * Saikat Ahamed, English actor * Saikat Ali (cricketer, born 1991), Bangladeshi cricketer * Saikat Chakrabarti, American political advisor, activist and software engineer *Saikat Saha Roy Saikat Saha Roy (born 12 December 1991) is an Indian football player who currently plays for I-League 2nd Division club Bhawanipore F.C. Club career East Bengal After spending a season being captain for the East Bengal F.C. youth team in th ... (born 1991), Indian footballer {{given name Bengali names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahbano Bilgrami
Shahbano Bilgrami is a writer, editor, poet, and book/film reviewer. Biography Though born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Shahbano spent her early life in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Due to her interest in literature, she was awarded a variety of prizes in essay and creative-writing contests throughout high school. In 1991, she and her family moved back to her country of origin, where she completed her A Levels. Shahbano then went on to the University of London to complete a BA Honours in English and an MA in Twentieth Century Literature from King's College London. She has lived in Morgantown, West Virginia with her husband and two daughters since 2002. During her eight years at the Karachi branch of the Oxford University Press, she was an editor and writer for the Education Division. While working there, she wrote and contributed to many textbooks aimed at children. In 1997, her poetry was published in ''An Anthology'', by the Oxford University Press. It is a collection of poetry wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
