The Hindu Literary Prize
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The Hindu Literary Prize or The Hindu Best Fiction Award, established in 2010, is an Indian literary award sponsored by The Hindu Literary Review which is part of the The Hindu paper.[1] It recognizes Indian works in English and English translation. The first year, 2010, the award was called The Hindu Best Fiction Award.
Winners and shortlist
Blue Ribbon (
) = winner.
Serious Men, Manu Joseph [4][5]- Eunuch Park, Palash Krishna Mehrotra
- The Pleasure Seekers, Tishani Doshi
- Venus Crossing, Kalpana Swaminathan
- Come, Before Evening Falls, Manjul Bajaj
- Saraswati Park, Anjali Joseph
- If I Could Tell You, Soumya Bhattacharya
- The Thing About Thugs, Tabish Khair
- The To-Let House, Daisy Hasan
- Way to Go, Upamanyu Chatterjee
- Neti, Neti, Anjum Hasan
2011[6]
- The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya[7][8]
- Bharathipura, translated work of U. R. Ananthamurthy, translated by Sushila Punitha
- The Fakir, translated work of Sunil Gangopadhyay, translated by Monabi Mitra
- River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
- Litanies of Dutch Battery, translated work of N. S. Madhavan, translated by Rajesh Raja Mohan
- The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
- The Storyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
2012[9]
- Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto
- Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil
- The Extras, Kiran Nagarkar
- Difficult Pleasures, Anjum Hasan
- Bitter Wormwood, Easterine Kire
- The Illicit Happiness of Other People, Manu Joseph
- Foreign, Sonora Jha
- Roll of Honour, Amandeep Sandhu
- Vanity Bagh, Anees Salim [12]
- Another Man's Wife and Other Stories, Manjul Bajaj
2014[13]
- The Competent Authority, Shovon Chowdhury
- Shadow Play, Shashi Deshpande
- A Bad Character, Deepti Kapur
- Idris, Keeper of the Light, Anita Nair
- The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
- The Book of Common Signs, Ashok Srinivasan[14]
2015[15]
- Flood of Fire, Amitav Ghosh
- Odysseus Abroad, Amit Chaudhuri
- Seahorse, Janice Pariat
- Sleeping on Jupiter, Anuradha Roy
- The Patna Manual of Style, Siddharth Chowdhury
- When the River Sleeps, Easterine Kire[16]
See also
References
- ↑ The Hindu Literary Prize, official website.
- ↑ "The Hindu Best Fiction Award 2010 Shortlist", The Hindu, Oct 1, 2010.
- ↑ "Amitav Ghosh, Sunil Gangopadhyay Shortlisted for Hindu Prize." (2011, Sep 26). The Hindustan Times [New Delhi]. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
- ↑ Benedicte Page. "Manu Joseph's controversial tale of caste wins Indian literary prize", The Guardian, 2 Nov 2010.
- ↑ "Journalist's debut novel 'Serious Men' wins award." (2010, Nov 03). Mail Today [New Delhi]. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
- ↑ "Shortlisted works for 2011 prize", The Hindu, Sept. 25, 2011
- ↑ "The Hindu Literary Prize goes to debut novel", The Hindu, Oct 30, 2011.
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