Anyone who could have guessed even five of the 10 novelists
who have just been revealed as the finalists for the fifth Man Booker
International Prize deserves a mass cap-doffing from the wider reading public.
I'm familiar with works of just two of these novelists: U.R Ananthamurty (India) and Intizar Hossain (Pakistan). Both of them are iconic writers, and hugely respected across the sub-continent. Hossain's classic Urdu novel "Basti" has recently been translated by Columbia University South Asian scholar Frances Pritchett.
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