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- The Wellcome Trust Book Prize 2009
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- UNESCO International Translation Day 2008
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- Man Booker Prize 2008
- Man Asian Literary Prize Longlist 2008
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- Caine Prize Shortlist Announced
- CONTEXT - U.S. triquarterly with translation
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- World Book Capital 2008
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- Reading The World 2008
- Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2008
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