Eleven Indian authors have found a place in the long list of the prestigious Man Asian Literary Prize 2008 considered by many as the Asian Booker. The Indians in the reckoning are Tulsi Badrinath ( Melting Love ), Anjum Hasan ( Neti, Neti ), Daisy Hasan ( The To-Let House ), Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi ( Lost Flamingoes of Bombay ), Amit Varma ( My Friend, Sancho ), Sarayu Srivatsa ( The Last Pretence ), Kavery Nambisan ( The Story that Must Not be Told ), Sumana Roy
Love in the Chicken’s Neck ), Vaibhav Saini ( On the Edge of Pandemonium ), Rupa Krishnan Something Wicked This Way Comes ) and Salma ( Midnight Tales ). The 21 unpublished works of Asian fiction in English will be reviewed and evaluated by the judges, who will announce a shortlist of works in October 2008. The winner will be announced on November 13 at an awards ceremony in Hong Kong, the administrative committee for the 2008 Man Asian Literary Prize said in a statement. The Man Asian Literary Prize, sponsored by the Man Group which sponsors the Booker Prize as well, is open to works of fiction in English (original or in translation) written by a living person of Asian origin that have not been published at the time of submission.