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The Orange prize sets a comprehensive example to the Booker. The 2012 Orange Prize longlist lands in the dust kicked up by the ongoing rumpus about the gender bias in literary journalism, reported by Vida, an American organisation supporting women in the literary arts.

The Orange prize sets a comprehensive example to the Booker

Orange won't change that debate. But its longlist does demonstrate, yet again, that the contemporary fiction that matters is largely by (and for) women. If all we had to read this year in fiction was to be found on this list we'd still have plenty to savour and digest. The other thing about Orange – Booker take note, please – is the impressive slate of American women writers on this list. From some points of view, it's almost an alternative tradition. Man Asian Literary Prize Shortlist. Seven novels have been shortlisted for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, among the authors at least two who are already internationally well-known.

Man Asian Literary Prize Shortlist

Chair of the judging panel, Razia Iqbal, commented on the strength of contemporary fiction coming out of Asia. ‘The judges were greatly impressed by the imaginative power of the stories now being written about rapidly changing life in worlds as diverse as the arid borderlands of Pakistan, the crowded cityscape of modern Seoul, and the opium factories of nineteenth century Canton,’ she said. The two other judges for this year’s Prize are Pulitzer-prize finalist and author of The Surrendered , Chang-rae Lee, and Vikas Swarup, author of Q&A which was filmed as the movie Slumdog Millionaire. Ninety books were submitted for entry in 2011. New Literature Prize to establish "standard of excellence" 12.10.11 | Benedicte Page A new literary award, The Literature Prize, has been set up to "establish a clear and uncompromising standard of excellence", with the advisory board claiming that the Man Booker Prize no longer does the job.

New Literature Prize to establish "standard of excellence"

The board, for which agent Andrew Kidd of Aitken Alexander is spokesperson, said the prize "will offer readers a selection of novels that, in the view of these expert judges, are unsurpassed in their quality and ambition", with judges selected in rotation from an academy of experts in the field of literature.

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The Man Booker Prize.