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Asian writers on the longlist include South Korean writer Han Kang, for her novel The Vegetarian; Kenzaburō Ōe for Death by Water, his 16th book translated to English; Indonesian author Eka Kurniawan for his novel Man Tiger; and Chinese author Yan Lianke for The Four Books, a title that took him 20 years to plan, two to write and which was rejected by 20 publishers for its political content before being banned in mainland China.

The magazine’s roster of writers reads like a who’s who of the second half of 20th century avant-garde literature: Samuel Beckett, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Albert Camus, Marguerite Duras, Allen Ginsberg, Eugène Ionesco, Kenzaburō Ōe, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and William Carlos Williams, to name just a small selection of contributors.

The magazine’s roster of writers reads like a who’s who of the second half of 20th century avant-garde literature: Samuel Beckett, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Albert Camus, Marguerite Duras, Allen Ginsberg, Eugène Ionesco, Kenzaburō Ōe, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and William Carlos Williams, to name just a small selection of contributors.