A reader’s guide to the fiction and translations shortlists of the Crossword Book Jury Awards

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Nov 04, 2018 · 08:30 am

Is this collection of stories about death, destiny or Benares? Perhaps it’s all three

Siba Barkataki

· Nov 03, 2018 · 12:30 pm

A young Punjabi man sails to a new life in California in this historical novel about migration

Simrita Dhir

· Nov 02, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Farmers pour into cities across India to protest in this novel about the country’s agrarian crisis

Namita Waikar

· Nov 01, 2018 · 05:30 pm

A civil servant struggles to reconcile tribal rights with her duty to the state in this novel

Anita Agnihotri

· Oct 26, 2018 · 05:30 pm

The demonetisation novel: A finance expert in New York gets an urgent call from India

Ravi Subramanian

· Oct 24, 2018 · 08:30 am

‘The crux of my novel is one woman’s loneliness’: How a writer recreated the story of the poet Andal

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Oct 21, 2018 · 12:30 pm

From Korea, a fairy tale for adults that makes readers happy with its violence and nightmares

Suhasini Patni

· Oct 20, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Man Booker Prize 2018: Anna Burns wins for ‘Milkman’, but big publishers are the real victors

Leigh Wilson, The Conversation

· Oct 20, 2018 · 12:30 pm

A novel about one woman’s life becomes a neat history of middle-class anxiety in India

Niyati Bhat

· Oct 20, 2018 · 08:30 am

A ‘rakshashi’ is released, triggering a crisis in this new fantasy novel from India

Achala Upendran

· Oct 19, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Three contrasting lives intersect in Fatima Bhutto’s new novel about identity and violence

Fatima Bhutto

· Oct 18, 2018 · 08:30 am

This coming-of-age novel about friendship is set against the 1987 Khasi-Bengali clashes in Shillong

Nilanjan P Choudhury

· Oct 17, 2018 · 05:30 pm

This debut collection of interconnected short stories is a web of responses to everyday violence

Akil Kumarasamy

· Oct 16, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Anuradha Roy and Jairam Ramesh among shortlisted authors for The Hindu Literary Prize

Scroll Staff

· Oct 15, 2018 · 11:45 am

‘In Arab countries, you will remain a foreigner, but they want you as a paid slave’: Benyamin

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Oct 14, 2018 · 07:00 am

In a landscape of new literary awards, what can readers take away from the DSC Prize longlist?

Sana Goyal

· Oct 13, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Anita Nair’s ‘Eating Wasps’ is a strangely calming reminder of the complex lives of women

Suhasini Patni

· Oct 13, 2018 · 08:30 am

The 1971 Dhaka University massacre forms the backdrop for this novel about life in violent times

Nadeem Zaman

· Oct 12, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Arundhati Roy and Jeet Thayil on the longlist of the 2018 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

Scroll Staff

· Oct 10, 2018 · 10:00 pm