2007
- Chinese writer Jiang Rong won the inaugural prize with his work, Wolf Totem.
Judging panel
- Andre Aciman (United States)
- Adrienne Clarkson (Canada)
- Nicholas Jose (Australia)
Shortlist
Jiang Rong was selected from a short-list of five:
- Jose Dalisay Jr., Soledad's Sister
- Reeti Gadekar, Families at Home
- Nu Nu Yi Inwa, Smile As They Bow
- Jiang Rong, Wolf Totem
- Xu Xi, Habit of a Foreign Sky
Also longlisted in 2007
On 20 July 2007, the Prize announced a list of 23 names:
- Tulsi Badrinath, The Living God
- Sanjay Bahadur, The Sound Of Water
- Kankana Basu, Cappuccino Dusk
- Sanjiv Bhatla, InJustice
- Shahbano Bilgrami, Without Dreams
- Saikat Chakraborty, The Amnesiac
- Xiaolu Guo, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
- Ameena Hussein, The Moon in the Water
- Hitomi Kanehara, Autofiction
- N S Madhavan, Litanies of Dutch Battery
- Laxmi Narayan Mishra, The Little God
- Mo Yan, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
- Nalini Rajan, The Pangolin’s Tale
- Chiew-Siah Tei, Little Hut of Leaping Fishes
- Shreekumar Varma, Maria’s Room
- Anuradha Vijayakrishnan, Seeing The Girl
- Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, The Silent One
- Egoyan Zheng, Fleeting Light
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