Veteran Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi and Britain-based Indian-origin author Sir Vidya Naipaul were yesterday named in the long list of the 60,000 pound Man Booker International prize
Veteran Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi and Britain-based Indian-origin author Sir Vidya Naipaul were yesterday named in the long list of the 60,000 pound Man Booker International prize.
They were among 14 authors from 12 countries - seven them writers in translation - who have been named in the judge's list of contenders.
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Mahasweta Devi, who is based in Santiniketan in West Bengal, is among India's foremost writers and a well-known activist for the rights of indigenous peoples. She writes in Bengali.
The 14 authors on the list are: Peter Carey (Australia), Evan S. Connell (USA), Mahasweta Devi (India), E.L. Doctorow (USA), James Kelman (UK), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), Arnoufffdt Lustig (Czechoslovakia), Alice Munro (Canada), V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad/India), Joyce Carol Oates (USA), Antonio Tabucchi (Italy), Ngugi Wa Thiong'O (Kenya), and Dubravka Ugresic (Croatia), Ludmila Ulitskaya (Russia).
The judging panel for the Man Booker International Prize 2009 is: Jane Smiley, writer; Amit Chaudhuri, writer, academic and musician; and writer, film script writer and essayist, Andrey Kurkov.
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