Insights from the DSC Prize jurors into how a literary prize jury picks its winners

The longlist comprised three works of translation, seven women authors and seven debut novelists.

Shireen Quadri

· Jan 22, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Amitabha Bagchi’s ‘Half The Night Is Gone’ wins $25,000-DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019

The winner was chosen from a shortlist of six works of fiction.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 17, 2019 · 01:11 am

Writers’ groups in Africa are disrupting the system and reshaping the region’s literary canon

For years, there has been debate over which African stories are presented on the world stage, who is awarded, and who is in charge of the prizes.

Doseline Kiguru, The Conversation

· Dec 04, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Poet Akkitham’s Jnanpith award recognises an epic literary journey out of tradition into modernity

Malayalam poet and writer Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, 93, has been selected for the Jnanpith Award in 2019.

Santosh Alex

· Dec 02, 2019 · 07:30 am

Writer Shanta Gokhale receives lifetime achievement award at Tata Literature Live! festival

In the fiction category, the Tata Literature Live! first book award was given to ‘The Far Field’ by Madhuri Vijay.

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· Nov 18, 2019 · 08:58 am

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.

Scroll Staff

· 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