Lankan novelist longlisted for DSC Prize for South Asian Lit.
View(s):Sri Lankan writer Minoli Salgado is on the longlist for the US $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016 announced at the Oxford Bookstore in New Delhi last month.
Mark Tully with Surina Narula, founder of the DSC Prize
The longlist comprising 11 books represents a mix of established writers and debut novelists. It features authors based in South Asia as well as the authors who explored South Asian life and culture from an outside perspective.
The longlisted authors: Aatish Taseer: The Way Things Were (Picador/PanMacmillan, India), Akhil Sharma: Family Life (Faber & Faber, UK), Amit Chaudhuri: Odysseus Abroad (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin India), Anuradha Roy: Sleeping on Jupiter (Hachette, India), K.R. Meera: Hang Woman (translated by J Devika ; Penguin, India), Minoli Salgado: A Little Dust on the Eyes (Peepal Tree Press, UK), Mirza Waheed: The Book of Gold Leaves (Viking/Penguin India),. Monica Byrne: The Girl in the Road (Blackfriars/Little, Brown Book Group, UK), Neel Mukherjee: The Lives of Others (Vintage/Penguin Random House, UK), Raj Kamal Jha: She Will Build Him A City (Bloomsbury, India), Sandip Roy: Don’t Let Him Know (Bloomsbury, India).
Speaking on the occasion, Mark Tully, Chair of the jury commented, “Once again the DSC Prize has attracted an outstanding list of entries. The novels vary widely in content and in style.
They cover all the countries of South Asia. I am particularly happy that there are novels from the small states of North East India – states which do not get adequate attention from the rest of the country.
The DSC Prize includes translated novels written in South Asian languages.”
The shortlist of the DSC Prize 2016 will be announced on November 26 at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) in London.