The Chinese author behind Oscar-nominated film "Raise the Red Lantern" has won a major Asian literary prize with his latest novel, set during the Cultural Revolution, organisers said Tuesday. Su Tong's "The Boat to Redemption" was awarded the third-annual Man Asian Literary Prize, which is open to novels from the region that have not yet been published in English ...

A novel by Filipino author Miguel Syjuco, that touches on 150 years of often turbulent Philippines history, has won a major Asian literary prize, organisers said. Syjuco's "Ilustrado" was awarded the second annual Man Asian Literary Prize, which is open to novels from the region that have not yet been published in English. "Ilustrado seems to us to possess ...