Amitav book on Warwick Prize longlist

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Indian writer Amitav Ghosh’s latest novel, River of Smoke, has been nominated for the £25,000 Warwick Prize, a unique international and cross-disciplinary award, which is open to substantial pieces of writing in the English language, in any genre or form.
The biennial prize, which was constituted in 2009 by the University of Warwick, has six fiction, three non-fiction and three poetry books in the longlist released on Wednesday for the 2013 award. The fiction contenders include The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, Sufficient Grace by Amy Espeseth, Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally, and Suddenly, A Knock On The Door by Etgar Keret.
The poetry nominations include Cumulus by Robert Gray, Book of Sins by Nidaa Khoury and Memorial by Alice Oswald. The non-fiction selection includes Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim Al-Khalili, Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine and The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane. The shortlist of six titles will be announced in August and the winner will be revealed in late September. Naomi Klein won the inaugural winner of the prize in 2009 for her book The Shock Doctrine and Peter Forbes won the prize in 2011 for Dazzled and Deceived.