DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
Awarded for	Original full-length novel inspired by South Asia, written in English, or translated into English by any writer across the globe.
Sponsor	DSC Limited
Country	India
Host	DSC Limited
Reward	₹2,800,000
First awarded	2011
Last awarded	Active
Official website	http://dscprize.com

The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is a literary prize awarded annually to writers of any ethnicity or nationality writing about South Asia themes such as culture, politics, history, or people. It is for an original full-length novel written in English, or translated into English. The award is for novels published in the year preceding the judging of the prize. The winner receives ₹2,800,000 (about US$50,000). The prize was instituted by DSC Limited, an Indian infrastructure and construction company which also sponsored the Jaipur Literature Festival.

Winners and shortlist

Blue Ribbon () = winner

2011

• Amit Chaudhuri, The Immortals (Picador India)
• Musharraf Ali Farooqi, The Story of a Widow (Picador India)
• Tania James, Atlas Of Unknowns (Pocket Books)
• Manju Kapur, The Immigrant (Faber & Faber)
• Neel Mukherjee, A Life Apart (Constable & Robinson)
• H. M. Naqvi, Home Boy (HarperCollins India)

2012

• U.R. Ananthamurthy, Bharathipura (Oxford University Press, India; translated by Susheela Punitha)
• Chandrakanta, A Street in Srinagar (Zubaan Books, India; translated by Manisha Chaudhry)
• Usha K.R, Monkey-man (Penguin/Penguin India)
• Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman (Random House, India)
• Tabish Khair, The Thing About Thugs (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins India)
• Kavery Nambisan, The Story that Must Not Be Told (Viking/Penguin India)

2013

• Jamil Ahmad, The Wandering Falcon (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin India)
• Tahmima Anam, The Good Muslim (Penguin Books)
• Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin India)
• Mohammed Hanif, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (Random House India)
• Uday Prakash, The Walls of Delhi (Translated by Jason Grunebaum; UWA Publishing, W. Australia)
• Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis (Faber and Faber, London)

2014

• Anand, Book of Destruction (Translated by Chetana Sachidanandan; Penguin India)
• Benyamin, Goat Days (Translated by Joseph Koyippalli; Penguin India)
• Cyrus Mistry, Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer (Aleph Book Company, India)
• Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin India)
• Nadeem Aslam, The Blind Man’s Garden (Random House, India)
• Nayomi Munaweera, Island of a Thousand Mirrors (Perera Hussein Publishing, Sri Lanka)

2015 The winner was announced January 22, 2015.

• Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here is Too Great (Vintage Books/Random House, India)
• Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland (Vintage Books/Random House, India)
• Kamila Shamsie, A God in Every Stone (Bloomsbury, India)
• Romesh Gunesekera, Noontide Toll (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, India)
• Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, The Mirror of Beauty (Penguin Books, India)

2016

• Akhil Sharma, Family Life (Faber & Faber, UK)
• Anuradha Roy, Sleeping on Jupiter (Hachette, India)
• K. R. Meera, Hang Woman (Translated by J Devika; Penguin, India)
• Mirza Waheed, The Book of Gold Leaves (Viking/Penguin India)
• Neel Mukherjee, The Lives of Others (Vintage/Penguin Random House, UK)
• Raj Kamal Jha, She Will Build Him A City (Bloomsbury, India)

External links

• DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, official site

• Note: South Asia for the purposes of the prize is defined as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and Afghanistan. See Eligibility Criteria.