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Upamanyu Chatterjees dark and austere novel Way to Go,Sri Lankan writer Ru Freemans A Disobedient Girl,and HM Naqvis Home Boy,a tale of immigration,love and loss,are among the 16 names in the longlist for the first DSC Prize for South Asian Literature,announced on Tuesday. The $50,000 award (Rs 23 lakh approximately),instituted by infrastructure major DSC,which also organises the Jaipur Literature Festival,answers what Lord Meghnad Desai calls,a need to recognise the South Asian mode of thinking.
The five-member jury,comprising Labour politician and former chairman of Faber and Faber,Matthew Evans,Pakistani writer Moni Mohsin,novelist Amitava Kumar among others,went through more than 55 books. Tamil poet and novelist Rokkaiah Salmas debut novel Irandaam Jaamattin Kadai,translated by Laksmi Holmstrom as The Hour Past Midnight,and Sankars The Middleman,translated by Arunava Sinha from the Bengali Jana Aranya are in contention.
Chandrahas Choudhurys Arzee the Dwarf,Amit Chaudhuris The Immortals,Musharraf Ali Farooquis The Story of a Widow,Anjum Hasans Neti Neti,Manju Kapurs The Immigrant,Ali Sethis The Wish Maker,Jaspreet Singhs Chef,Aatish Taseers (in the picture)The Temple Goers and Tania James first novel Atlas of Unknowns are the other names on the list. The shortlist will be announced on October 25 in London and the prize will be given out during the Jaipur Literature Festival in January.
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