All the best to Intezar Hussain :k:
I was just thinking that whether or not these Prizes for literature given to the writers who deserve it, or there is something behind giving awards like promoting a particular ideology. :hmmm:
If we look at Rushdie’s work his works like Midnight’s children and Satanic Verses were also nominated and awarded Prize. Satanic Verse was nothing more than a controversial work (I don’t know what was its literary value), whereas Midnight’s children also got attraction due indigestible sexual adventure of desi woman in presence of her father :bummer:
Intizar shortlisted for Booker Prize - thenews.com.pk
The well-known writer Intizar Hussain, after being nominated for the prestigious Booker Prize, has made it to the list of nine short listed writers.
The announcement for the winner of the prize is to be made on May 22. The Booker Prize is awarded to a living author who has published fiction either originally in English or whose work is generally available in translation in the English language. The winner of the £60,000 prize can also choose a translator of their work to receive a £15,000 award of their own Pakistan’s Intizar Hussain has brought much pride to the Pakistani community by writing novels translated from Urdu into English, including Naya Ghar and Basti. The finalists were announced the other day at the Jaipur Literary Festival in India and the winner is to be announced in London on May 22. This is a time of pride for the Urdu Speaking and Pakistani community and we truly hope Intizar wins the final prize as well.
The list of the short-listed included: U R Ananthamurthy (India), Aharon Appelfeld (Israel), Lydia Davis (USA), Intizar Husain (Pakistan), Yan Lianke (China), Marie NDiaye (France), Josip Novakovich (Canada), Marilynne Robinson (USA), Vladimir Sorokin (Russia) and Peter Stamm (Switzerland). There are no submissions allowed; the Man Booker International Prize is chosen solely at the discretion of the judges. For the earlier prizes there had been three judges this year for the first time. They are five (Christopher Ricks, Elif Batuman, Aminatta Forna, Yiyun Li and Tim Parks). It is this, says the prize administrator Fiammetta Rocco, which accounts for the surprising list of finalists. “Now that we have five judges,” she says, “we have been able to read in far greater depth than ever before.” Each of the judges has their own area of geographical expertise which allowed for a more comprehensive overview of contemporary world literature. “Fiction is now available in all sorts of forms and in translation in more countries,” notes Rocco, “this list recognises that and is the fruit of the judges’ collective reading.”
The announcement of this year’s prize recipient will be made at a dinner at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on May 22; and with this list the judges have already made sure that the name is a surprise.
