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^[1] themes such as culture, politics, history, or people.^[2] It is for an original full-length novel written in English, or translated into English.^[2] The award is for novels published in the year preceding the judging of the prize.^[2] The winner receives ₹2,800,000 (about US$50,000).^[2] The prize was instituted by DSC Limited, an Indian infrastructure and construction company which also sponsored the Jaipur Literature Festival.^[3]

Winners and shortlist

Year	Winning author	Winning work (publisher)	Runners-up	Refs.
2011	H. M. Naqvi	Home Boy (HarperCollins India)	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)	[4][5]
2012	Shehan Karunatilaka	Chinaman (Random House, India)	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) Tabish Khair, The Thing About Thugs (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins India) Kavery Nambisan, The Story that Must Not Be Told (Viking/Penguin India)	[6][7][8][9]
2013	Jeet Thayil	Narcopolis (Faber and Faber, London)	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)	[10][11][12]
2014	Cyrus Mistry	Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer (Aleph Book Company, India)	Anand, Book of Destruction (Translated by Chetana Sachidanandan; Penguin India) Benyamin, Goat Days (Translated by Joseph Koyippalli; Penguin 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)	[13][14]
2015	Jhumpa Lahiri	The Lowland (Vintage Books/Random House, India)	Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here is Too Great (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)	[15][16]
2016	Anuradha Roy	Sleeping on Jupiter (Hachette, India)	Akhil Sharma, Family Life (Faber & Faber, UK) 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)	[17][18]

Notes

1. 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.
2. "Eligibility Criteria for Entries to the 2011 DSC Prize". DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
3. "Advisory Committee for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature Constituted Post". DSC Limited. 23 March 2010. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
4. Ipsita Basu Dasgupta (8 July 2011). "Karachi has more stories than New York: HM Naqvi". DNA India. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
5. "Shortlist Announced for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature". Asia Writes'. 25 October 2010. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
6. Lex Delaney (24 October 2011). "Shortlist announced for the 2012 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature". South Asian Literary Festival. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
7. Madhur Tankha (15 September 2011). "16 titles for DSC Prize for South Asian Literature". The Hindu.
8. "Shehan Karunatilaka wins 2012 DSC Prize". DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. 21 January 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
9. Archana Khare Ghose (22 January 2012). "S Karunatilake wins DSC Prize in Literature". The Times of India.
10. Shreya Roy Chowdhury (11 July 2012). "Jury announced for DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013". The Times of India.
11. Supriya Nair (21 November 2012). "DSC Prize 2013 shortlist announced". Mint. Retrieved 21 November 2012.
12. Richard Lea (25 January 2013). "Jeet Thayil becomes first Indian winner of South Asian literature prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 January 2013.
13. Ashlin Mathew (22 November 2013). "Three Indians in race for DSC prize for South Asian Literature 2014". India Today. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
14. Aditi Malhotra (18 January 2014). "Indian Wins South Asian Prize for Literature". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
15. "Five novels make it to the shortlist of the DSC Prize 2015". 27 November 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
16. Claire Armitstead (22 January 2015). "Jhumpa Lahiri wins $50,000 DSC prize for south Asian literature". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
17. "DSC Prize 2016 Finalists". 26 November 2015. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
18. "Indian author Anuradha Roy wins USD 50,000 DSC Prize". Business Standard. Press Trust of India. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2016.

External links

• DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, official site