Mohsin Hamid shortlisted for the Australia-Asia Literary Award
The shortlist for the richest literary award in Australia and Asia has just been released and we are thrilled that Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is on it.
The 12 novels longlisted for the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award, from an original field of 111 entries has now been narrowed down to five:
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey
Orpheus Lost by Janette Turner Hospital
The Complete Stories by David Malouf
The $110,000 prize makes the award the richest in the region. Where the winning entry has been translated into English, the author will receive $88,000 and the translator $22,000.