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

Six works of fiction and five works of non-fiction are in the running.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 15, 2018 · 11:45 am

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

The 16 novels reveal attention to translations, but largely remain limited to known and expected heavyweight authors.

Sana Goyal

· Oct 13, 2018 · 05:30 pm

The JCB Prize for Literature shortlist: This is why each of the five novels deserves to win

Each novel on the shortlist for the Rs 25 lakh literary prize has a set of strengths that makes it worthy of the top spot.

Harsimran Gill

· Oct 03, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Is a novel worth reading just because it’s on the Man Booker Prize shortlist?

Of course there are worthy books every year, as there are this year, but are these necessarily the best?

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Sep 30, 2018 · 08:30 am

Eye on the prize: This list of Indian literary awards for books in English is a long and varied one

There are in fact a surprisingly large number of prizes for books written in, or translated into, English.

Kanishka Gupta

· Sep 23, 2018 · 08:30 am

Perumal Murugan’s ‘One Part Woman’ on the translated books longlist for the US National Book Awards

The book, translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan, is on the longlist of a newly established category for translated literature of the prestigious prize.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 13, 2018 · 11:05 am

JCB Prize longlist: What we think about when we think about contemporary fiction from India

Ten novels that offer both common themes and unique points of divergence.

Sana Goyal

· Sep 09, 2018 · 07:00 am

Not the JCB / DSC / Hindu / Crossword prize longlist (or, you be the jury of this ‘literary award’)

Reader, we did our own longlist for you to vote for.

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Sep 04, 2018 · 05:30 pm

‘We have to seek the outlier, not the mainstream writer’: Arshia Sattar on judging literary prizes

An interview with the writer-translator-scholar who has probably been on more literary prize juries than anyone else in India.

Kanishka Gupta

· Sep 02, 2018 · 12:30 pm

New India Foundation announces its shortlist for the first Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize

The winner of the prize, which recognises works on post-independence India, will be announced in October.

Scroll Staff

· Aug 30, 2018 · 11:05 am

Neil Gaiman and Haruki Murakami selected as finalists for the ‘Alternative Literature Nobel’

The four finalists for the New Academy Prize were selected through a popular vote. The prize was set up after the cancellation of the 2018 Literature Nobel.

Scroll Staff

· Aug 30, 2018 · 10:36 am

Michael Ondaatje’s win of the Golden Man Booker highlights many of the problems of the prize

Does the Booker Prize fold resistant postcolonial novels into a shared British culture?

Jody Mason, The Conversation

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Dessa Bayrock, The Conversation

· Jul 30, 2018 · 05:30 pm