DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2010

The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature celebrates the rich and varied literature from, and connected to, the subcontinent. The prize will award US$ 50,000 to the winner starting from 2011. The award will recognize writers of any ethnicity writing about South Asia and its diasporas. The books competing for the prize must be an original work of fiction published during 1st April 2009 and 31st March 2010, written in English or translated into English.

Inaugural Longlist announced:
The shortlist of six books will be announced in October-end at the DSC South Asian Literature Festival in London and the winner at the Jaipur Literature Festival in January 2011.

Way to Go by Upamanyu Chatterjee
The Middleman by Mani Sankar Mukherjee
The Immortals by Amit Chaudhuri
Arzee the Dwarf by Chandrahas Choudhury
The Story of a Widow by M.A. Farooqui
A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman
Neti Neti by Anjum Hassan
Atlas of Unknowns by Tania James
The Immigrant by Manju Kapur
Home Boy by H.M. Naqvi
The Hour Past Midnight by Salma
The Wish Maker by Ali Sethi
Chef by Jaspreet Singh
The Temple Goers by Aatish Taseer
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin
A World Apart by Neel Mukherjee

The shortlisted entries for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature are:

- Amit Chaudhuri: The Immortals (Picador India)
- Musharraf Ali Farooqui: 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)
- HM Naqvi: Home Boy (HarperCollins India)

Thanks for this avatiakh. I've heard of several of these but have only read the Mueenuddin.

The longlist for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature was announced in New Delhi on October 16th:

Jamil Ahmad: The Wandering Falcon (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin India)

Alice Albinia: Leela’s Book (Harvill Secker, London)

Tahmima Anam: The Good Muslim (Penguin Books)

Rahul Bhattacharya: The Sly Company of People Who Care (Picador, London / Farrar Strauss and Giroux, New York)

Roopa Farooki: The Flying Man (Headline Review/ Hachette, London

Musharraf Ali Farooqi: Between Clay and Dust (Aleph Book Company, India)

Amitav Ghosh: River of Smoke (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin India)

Niven Govinden: Black Bread White Beer (Fourth Estate/ Harper Collins India)

Sunetra Gupta: So Good in Black (Clockroot Books, Massachusetts)

Mohammed Hanif, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (Random House India)

Jerry Pinto: Em and the Big Hoom (Aleph Book Company, India)

Uday Prakash: The Walls of Delhi (Translated by Jason Grunebaum; UWA Publishing, W. Australia)

Anuradha Roy: The Folded Earth (Hachette India)

Saswati Sengupta: The Song Seekers (Zubaan, India; will be published by the University of Chicago Press in March)

Geetanjali Shree: The Empty Space (Translated by Nivedita Menon; Harper Perennial/ Harper Collins India)

Jeet Thayil: Narcopolis (Faber and Faber, London)

The shortlist will be announced in mid November, and the winner will be awarded the prize in January. More information about each book can be found here:

http://dscprize.com/global/updates/dsc-prize-longlist-for-2013/

I've read The Wandering Falcon, The Good Muslim, River of Smoke and Narcopolis, and I own Our Lady of Alice Bhatti. All four books I've read were very good, but The Good Muslim was outstanding.

This is the third year for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Home Boy by HM Navqi won the 2011 prize, and Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka won last year's award. The latter novel was published as The Legend of Pradeep Mathew in the US earlier this year.

The shortlist for the 2013 DSC Prize was announced earlier today:

Jamil Ahmad: The Wandering Falcon
Tahmima Anam: The Good Muslim
Amitav Ghosh: River of Smoke
Mohammed Hanif: Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
Uday Prakash: The Walls of Delhi
Jeet Thayil: Narcopolis

"The winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013 will be announced at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, Diggi Palace Hotel, on 25th January 2013."

Press release: Announcement of the Shortlist for the DSC Prize 2013

I've read four of the shortlisted books so far: The Wandering Falcon, The Good Muslim, River of Smoke and Narcopolis. All were very good, but The Good Muslim was outstanding. I own Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, and I've added The Walls of Delhi to my Christmas wish list; it's available as a Kindle e-book in the US. I'll plan to read these remaining two books, and post a ranking of the six before the award is announced.

Thanks for posting the list, Darryl. The only one I've read is Narcopolis.

I finished The Walls of Delhi by Uday Prakash late last night, the last of the six novels that were shortlisted for this year's DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, which was outstanding. Here's my final ranking:

1. The Good Muslim by Tahmima Anam
2. River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
3. The Walls of Delhi by Uday Prakash
4. Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
5. The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
6. Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif

The Hanif was the only one of the six I didn't like; all of the others were at least 4 star reads.

The winner will be announced this Friday January 25th, during the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival.

Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil is the winner of this year's DSC Prize for South Asian Literature:

http://dscprize.com/global/updates/jeet-thayils-narcopolis-wins-the-dsc-prize-20...

The longlist for the 2014 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature was announced in New Delhi yesterday:

Anand: Book of Destruction
Benyamin: Goat Days
Cyrus Mistry: Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer
Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya: The Watch
Manu Joseph: The Illicit Happiness of Other People
Mohsin Hamid: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Nadeem Aslam: The Blind Man’s Garden
Nayomi Munaweera: Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Nilanjana Roy: The Wildings
Philip Hensher: Scenes from Early Life
Ru Freeman: On Sal Mal Lane
Sachin Kundalkar: Cobalt Blue
Shyam Selvadurai: The Hungry Ghosts
Sonora Jha: Foreign
Uzma Aslam Khan: Thinner Than Skin

"The jury will now deliberate on the longlist over the next month and the shortlist for the DSC Prize will be announced on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at The London School of Economics in London. The winner will be subsequently declared at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival in January 2014."

More info: http://dscprize.com/global/updates/2014-longlist-dsc-prize.html

Well, I haven't even heard of any of those! I'll have to remedy that.

ooh - i have a copies of a few of the nominees: on sal mal lane, the hungry ghosts, scenes from early life, the blind man's garden, how to get filthy rich is rising asia - none which i have read yet (so many books!!!); i have heard great things about all of them, though. thanks for the list kidzdoc.

I've read How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, which I liked, and Scenes from Early Life, which I loved, and I've heard of The Illicit Happiness of Other People and The Blind Man's Garden. I read the entire shortlist last year before the prize announcement, mostly by accident, but now that the Man Asian Literary Prize has folded the DSC Prize is the main literary award for Asian novels published in English. I doubt that I'll read the shortlist again ahead of time, but I'll take a close look at the longlisted books and buy or wishlist the ones that are most interesting to me.

You're welcome, BookishJoJo; I'll be curious to see which of these books you read.

Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry was chosen as the winner of the 2014 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.

The longlist for the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature was announced earlier this week:

Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here is Too Great
Jaspreet Singh, Helium
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
Kamila Shamsie, A God in Every Stone
Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
Meena Kandasamy, The Gypsy Goddess
Omar Shahid Hamid, The Prisoner
Romesh Gunesekera, Noontide Toll
Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Mad Girl’s Love Song
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, The Mirror of Beauty

I've read The Lowland, after it was shortlisted for last year's Booker Prize, and I own A God in Every Stone.

http://dscprize.com/global/updates/dsc-prize-2015-longlist-announced.html

The shortlist for the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature was announced yesterday:

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, The Mirror of Beauty
Romesh Gunesekera, Noontide Toll
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
Kamila Shamsie, A God in Every Stone
Bilal Tanweer, The Scatter Here Is Too Great

The winning book will be announced at the Jaipur Literature Festival on the 22nd January 2015.

http://dscprize.com/global/updates/five-novels-make-shortlist-dsc-prize-2015.htm...

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri is the winner of the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.

http://dscprize.com/global/updates/jhumpa-lahiri-wins-dsc-prize-south-asian-lite...