The longlist for Australia's richest literary prize, the $110,000 Australia-Asia Literary Award, was announced on October 17, 2008 by Western Australia's Culture and Arts Minister John Day.
The longlisted works are:
J.M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year
Matthew Condon, The Trout Opera
Michelle de Kretser, The Lost Dog
Ceridwen Dovey, Blood Kin
Rodney Hall, Love Without Hope
Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mireille Juchau, Burning In
David Malouf, The Complete Stories
Alex Miller, Landscape of Farewell
Haruki Murakami, After Dark, Translator: Jay Rubin
Indra Sinha, Animal's People
Janette Turner Hospital, Orpheus Lost
The winner will be annouced on Friday November 21, 2008.
