In more good news for Aravind Adiga, his Man Booker winning novel “The White Tiger” has been short-listed for this year’s John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.“It is very prestigious and I’m delighted to be on the short-list,” Adiga said.The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize rewards the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by a UK or Commonwealth writer aged 35 or under.It is awarded in honour of writer John Llewellyn Rhys, who was killed in action in the Second World War. It was founded 65 years by John Llewellyn Rhys’s young wife, also a writer, who began the award to honour and celebrate his life.The winner will be announced on Monday 24 November. The winner will receive 5,000 pound and the other shortlisted authors will receive 500 pound.The judges for the 2008 prize are Henry Sutton (Chair), author and books editor of the Daily Mirror, Joolz Denby, author and poet and Sarah Hall, author and winner of the 2006/07 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.The other works in the shortlist are “The Broken Word” by Adam Foulds, “The Secret Life of Words” by Henry Hitchings, “The Bloody White Baron” by James Palmer, “God’s Own Country” by Ross Raisin and “Selling Your Father’s Bones” by Brian Schofield.
