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Manil Suri among finalists for LA
Times Book Prizes

T J Sony in New York

Debutant novelist Manil Suri, a professor of mathematics in Maryland, is among the finalists for the prestigious 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.

Suri's The Death of Vishnu: A Novel has been chosen in the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction category.

The winners will be announced at the University of California at Los Angeles on April 27.

On Wednesday, the novel had won the Discover Great New Writers 2001 Fiction Prize.

The award ceremony was held at a Union Square bookshop in New York. Edward Carey for Observatory Mansions and Leif Enger for Peace Like a River were the other fiction finalists and the judges included poet Mark Doty, and novelist Francisco Goldman.

Another Indian, Pankaj Mishra, had won the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction in 2000. He won the prize for The Romantics, a novel about an Indian college student and his political and emotional coming-of-age.

Now in their 22nd year, the LA Times Book Prizes acknowledge excellence in nine categories, including fiction, science and technology, mysteries-thrillers and poetry.

Other Finalists
Biography

• Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser.
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand.
• John Adams by David McCullough.
• Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris.
• Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman.

Current Interest

• States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering by Stanley Cohen.
• The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued by Ann Crittenden.
• The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court by John W Dean.
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.
• Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore: Childhood and Murder in the Heart of America by Ron Powers.

Fiction

• The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen.
• By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah.
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro.
• Why Did I Ever: A Novel by Mary Robison.
• John Henry Days: A Novel by Colson Whitehead.

Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

• My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faolain.
• Crawling at Night: A Novel by Nani Power.
• The Dark Room (A Novel) by Rachel Seiffert.
• The Right Hand of Sleep: A Novel by John Wray.

• The Stranger From Paradise: A Biography of William Blake by G E Bentley Jr.
• France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 by Julian Jackson.
• The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand.
• Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Rick Perlstein.
• Venice, Lion City: The Religion of Empire by Garry Wills.

• Open Season: A Joe Pickett Novel by C J Box.
• Little America: A Novel by Henry Bromell.
• The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders by Marshall Browne.
• Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Storyville Mystery by David Fulmer
• Silent Joe: A Novel by T Jefferson Parker.

• The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos by Anne Carson
• Felt: Poems by Alice Fulton.
• The Seven Ages by Louise Glück.
• Landscape With Chainsaw: Poems by James Lasdun.
• Song of the World Becoming: New and Collected Poems, 1981-2001 by Pattiann Rogers.

• In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery with David Flannery.
• The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies by Richard Hamblyn.
• A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future by David Hancocks.
• Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks.
• The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes.

• The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland.
• Damage by A M Jenkins.
• Girlhearts by Norma Fox Mazer.
• The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo.
• The Land by Mildred D Taylor.

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