Shortlisted for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize this year are two Indian writers - Amitav Ghosh and Aravind Adiga. But, the non-inclusion of Salman Rushdie’s name has left both the critics and readers perplexed, particularly when the controversial writer’s ‘Enchantress of Florence’ was being considered a front runner.
Among some other well known writers not included are two favourites, namely, Joseph O’Neill and Mohammed Hanif, a London-based Pakistani journalist. While the former won great acclamation for his ‘Netherland’, about post-9/11 New York and cricket; the latter’s debut novel – ‘A Case of Exploding Mangoes’ – is a blazing political satire that has been quite well-received by the critics.
London, Sept 9 Two Indian writers are among the six shortlisted novelists for the 2008 Booker Prize, according to the list of names which was released on Tuesday.
