Press Release
There were 81 entries for the US $50,000 prize this year, from which the jury has compiled the Longlist of 16 books that they feel represent the diverse cultural landscapes of South Asia through a vibrant literary flourish. The jury panel included K Satchidanandan (Chair), Muneeza Shamsie, Rick Simonson, Suvani Singh and Eleanor O'Keeffe.
The longlisted entries contending for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013 are:
Jamil Ahmad: The Wandering Falcon (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin India)
Alice Albinia: Leela's Book (Harvill Secker, London)
Tahmima Anam: The Good Muslim (Penguin Books)
Rahul Bhattacharya: The Sly Company of People Who Care (Picador, London)
Roopa Farooki: The Flying Man (Headline Review/ Hachette, London
Musharraf Ali Farooqi: Between Clay and Dust (Aleph Book Company, India)
Amitav Ghosh: River of Smoke (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin India)
Niven Govinden: Black Bread White Beer (Fourth Estate/ Harper Collins India)
Sunetra Gupta: So Good in Black (Clockroot Books, Massachusetts)
Mohammed Hanif, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (Random House India)
Jerry Pinto: Em and the Big Hoom (Aleph Book Company, India)
Uday Prakash: The Walls of Delhi (Translated by Jason Grunebaum; UWA Publishing, W. Australia)
Anuradha Roy: The Folded Earth (Hachette India)
Saswati Sengupta: The Song Seekers (Zubaan, India)
Geetanjali Shree: The Empty Space (Translated by Nivedita Menon; Harper Perennial/ Harper Collins India)
Jeet Thayil: Narcopolis ( Faber and Faber, London)
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