Tata Literature Live! announces shortlists for five awards

The awards will be announced on November 17 in Mumbai.

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· Nov 08, 2019 · 07:03 pm

DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019: Read the opening lines of the six shortlisted novels

The 2019 prize will be awarded on December 16 at the Nepal Literature Festival in Pokhara.

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· Nov 07, 2019 · 10:42 am

Writer and translator Shanta Gokhale to receive Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award

Poet K Satchidanandan was named the literature festival’s Poet Laureate for 2019.

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· Nov 06, 2019 · 08:47 pm

This non-fiction literary prize shortlist is the one where every book must be read

The Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize goes to the book considered the best work of non-fiction published in the previous year.

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· Nov 04, 2019 · 08:30 am

Here’s what’s special about Madhuri Vijay’s ‘The Far Field’, winner of the Rs 25-lakh JCB Prize

The novel does not offer easy, totalising, and predictable resolutions.

Paromita Patranobish

· Nov 03, 2019 · 08:30 am

Is there a message in the choice of winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Booker Prize?

Writers whose works depict authoritarian regimes and toxic masculinity are among the winners.

Bhaskar Kumar

· Oct 20, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Why the Booker panel ought to have broken the tie (and perhaps chosen only Bernardine Evaristo)

Co-winner Margaret Atwood has herself said, ‘I kind of don’t need the attention.’

Clare Hutton, The Conversation

· Oct 17, 2019 · 05:30 pm

What each of the novels on the JCB Prize for Literature 2019 shortlist is worth reading for

These novels expose readers to a number of new literary experiences.

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Oct 12, 2019 · 07:30 am

JCB Prize 2019 shortlist: An acknowledgement that Indian fiction is now raw, brutal and angry

Two debuts, two translations, and a distinct departure from old literary sensibilities mark the chosen five.

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· Oct 04, 2019 · 12:30 pm

The DSC Prize for Literature longlist reaffirms the growing strength of diversity (and debuts)

The 15-book longlist offers a window to the richness of fiction with south Asian themes without falling back on renowned writers alone.

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· Sep 27, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Opinion: By failing to celebrate the work of its living authors, Pakistan is failing all of society

Two authors received the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz prize posthumously: Fahmida Riaz and Ibn e Safi.

Asif Farrukhi

· Sep 15, 2019 · 05:30 pm

JCB Prize for Literature 2019: Debutants and first novels dominate the longlist

The winner of the Rs 25-lakh prize will be announced on November 2.

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· Sep 04, 2019 · 02:11 pm