NEW YORK, June 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- OppenheimerFunds and the Financial Times today announced
the longlists for the 2016 FT/OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices
Awards. Artists from emerging-market nations as defined by the
World Bank Atlas Method* are eligible for awards in three
categories: Art, Fiction, and Film. The longlists of 10 artists in
each category were selected from more than 797 entries from 64
emerging-market countries.
The competition was open to artists from emerging-market nations
for awards in the following categories:
- Africa and the Middle East – painting, drawing, sculpture,
installation, mixed media – 393 entries received from 35
countries;
- Asia-Pacific – works of
fiction published in English – 156 entries, 14 countries;
- Latin America and the
Caribbean – films in any language
with English subtitles – 248 entries; 15 countries.
A shortlist will be announced on August
5, and winners will be announced at a gala awards ceremony
in New York City on September 26, which all shortlisted artists will
be invited to attend. Winners will receive a $40,000 prize, and two runners-up per category
will receive $5,000.
"I am once again humbled by the quality of submissions we
received from these outstanding artists around the globe," said
Justin Leverenz, Director of
Emerging Market Equities at OppenheimerFunds and Founder of the
Emerging Voices Awards. "I am honored to be a part of something
that highlights their work and showcases this talent."
The 2015 winners were Cristina
Planas for her works Vultures, Table of Negotiations,
Mass Grave, Coloured Christ (Art, Peru), Chigozie
Obioma for The Fishermen (Fiction, Nigeria), and Yuhang
Ho for Trespassed (Film, Malaysia).
The longlists are:
Art – Africa and the
Middle East:
Noor
Abuarafeh (Jordan)
Victor Ehikhamenor
(Nigeria)
Aicha Filali (Tunisia)
Naomi Wanjiku Gakunga
(Kenya)
Ilan Godfrey (South Africa)
Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga (Congo Dem. Rep.)
Syowia Kyambi (Kenya)
Emo de Medeiros (Benin)
Gareth Nyandoro (Zimbabwe)
Abel Tilahun (Ethiopia)
Fiction – Asia-Pacific:
The Bones of Grace
by Tahmima Anam, Canongate Books (Bangladesh / UK)
Home by Leila S. Chudori, Deep Vellum Publishing
(Indonesia)
The Seventh Day by Yu
Hua, Pantheon Books (China)
The Tusk That Did the Damage by Tania James, Harvill
Secker (India /
USA)
Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan, Verso Books (Indonesia)
The Four Books by Yan Lianke, Chatto &
Windus (China)
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan, Chatto & Windus
(India / USA)
Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha
Roy, MacLehose Press (India)
Reckless by Hasan Ali Toptas, Bloomsbury Publishing
(Turkey)
Crystal Wedding by
Xu Xiaobin, Balestier Press
(China)
Film – Latin America and the
Caribbean:
Wifi by
Douglas Alonzo (Honduras)
Solon by Clarissa
Campolina (Brazil)
Olia by Tania Cattebeke (Paraguay)
History of Abraim by Otavio
Cury (Brazil)
When the Sun Rises by Santiago
Eguia (Paraguay)
3:14 by Patricio Marin
(Mexico)
The Tailor by Diego
Pino (Bolivia)
Impressions of War by Camilo
Restrepo (Colombia)
Dionisio by Isabel
Vaca (Mexico)
Zerch by J. Xavier
Velasco (Mexico)
Panels of judges are reviewing the submissions to find the
artists whose work best demonstrates outstanding talent and
exemplifies their art form and the voice of their region. The
judges include:
Chair: Michael Skapinker,
Associate Editor, Financial Times
Art Panel: Africa and the
Middle East
El
Anatsui, Sculptor
Iwona Blazwick, Director at
Whitechapel Gallery
Antonia Carver, Director of
Art Jameel
Jan Dalley, Arts Editor,
Financial Times
Koyo Kouoh, Art Director
Fiction Panel: Asia-Pacific
Xiaolu Guo, Novelist and Filmmaker
Sunil Khlinani, Director of the India Institute at King's
College, London
Lorien Kite, Book Editor,
Financial Times
Justin Leverenz, CFA,
Director of Emerging Markets Equities, OppenheimerFunds
Yiyun Li, Author
Elif Shafak, Novelist, Political Scientist and
Commentator
Film Panel: Latin America
and the Caribbean
Nigel
Andrews, Film Critic, Financial Times
Yuhang Ho, Film Director
Claudia Llosa, Film
Director
Mira Nair, Film Director
Pablo Trapero, Filmmaker
For more information, visit ft.com/emerging-voices or follow the
conversation on Twitter at #EmergingVoices.
* Gross National Income of less than $12,746 per capita.
For more information please contact:
Financial Times:
Christopher Chafin
christopher.chafin@ft.com
+1 917.551.5093
OppenheimerFunds:
Kimberly Weinrick
kweinrick@ofiglobal.com
+1 212.323.0729
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