{"id":3240,"date":"2017-09-11T23:35:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T18:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2017-09-11T23:57:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T18:57:15","slug":"south-asian-writers-man-booker-prize-2017-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/south-asian-writers-man-booker-prize-2017-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Which South Asian Writer(s) Will Make It To The Man Booker Prize 2017 Shortlist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of our most favourite South Asian authors are on the Man Booker Prize 2017 longlist.<\/p>\n

Members of an immigrant Muslim family are compelled to choose between\u00a0love and loyalty to the state against the backdrop of militancy\u00a0in\u00a0Kamila Shamsie’s latest book Home Fire<\/em>, a contemporary retelling of Sophocles’s play\u00a0Antigone<\/em>. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness<\/em>, which marked Arundhati Roy’s return to fiction after 20 years, weaves the story of a transgender woman in Old Delhi with India’s recent political history and the Kashmir resistance movement. Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West speaks of the global refugee\u00a0crisis with a clear sense of\u00a0hope for the future.<\/p>\n

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The three South Asian writers are joined by 10 other international authors on the 13-book longlist<\/a>. The Man Booker Prize 2017 shortlist will be announced on 13 September 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Novels by three South Asian authors are on the Man Booker Prize 2017 longlist. Shortlist to be announced on 13 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[365,91],"tags":[404,272,81,782,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3244,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions\/3244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiwriterslounge.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}