The literary prize announces that it will no longer list authors by nationality,but by country or territory, after drawing criticism when it bowed to pressure from ChinaThe Man Booker International prize has backed away from its decision to change a Taiwanese author’s nationality to “Taiwan, or China” after it was criticised for bowing to pressure from Beijing.
Author Wu Ming-Yi,who has been longlisted for his novel The Stolen Bicycle, was originally described by award organisers as a writer from Taiwan, and when his nomination was announced in March. Following a complaint from the Chinese embassy in London final week,his nationality was changed on the prize’s website to “Taiwan, China”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk