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Filipino author Miguel Syjuco has won the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize for his novel Ilustrado. The announcement was made on Thursday (13th November) in Hong Kong.
He received US $10, 000 (£6, 100). The prize launched last year as an annual award for Asian novels unpublished in English.
The other shortlisted titles were: Kavery Nambisan’s The Story That Must Not be Told; Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi’s Lost Flamingoes of Bombay; Yu Hua’s Brothers; and Alfred A Yuson’s The Music Child.
The judges said: “The shortlist for the Man Asian prize testifies to the great vitality of the novel in Asian societies . . . Ilustrado is brilliantly conceived, and stylishly executed, it covers a large and tumultuous historical period with seemingly effortless skill. It is also ceaselessly entertaining, frequently raunchy, and effervescent with humour."