DSC Prize-2016

DSC PRIZE 2016

Question:  Who has won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016?

(a) Akhil Sharma
(b) Anuradha Roy
(c) Mirza Waheed
(d) Raj Kamal Jha

Ans (b)

Related facts:

  • Indian author Anuradha Roy on 16 January 2016 won the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for her novel ‘Sleeping on Jupiter’ at the Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka.
  • Roy was awarded the prize which carried a cash award of $50,000 and a trophy by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
  • The six shortlisted authors in contention for the prestigious prize were:
  • Akhil Sharma: Family Life (Faber & Faber, UK)
  • Anuradha Roy: Sleeping on Jupiter (Hachette, India)
  • R. Meera: Hang Woman (Translated by J Devika; Penguin, India)
  • Mirza Waheed: The Book of Gold Leaves (Viking/Penguin India)
  • Neel Mukherjee: The Lives of Others (Vintage/Penguin Random House, UK)
  • Raj Kamal Jha: She Will Build Him A City (Bloomsbury, India)
  • The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is a literary prize awarded annually to writers of any ethnicity or nationality writing about South Asia with themes such as culture, politics, history or people.
  • The prize was instituted by DSC Limited, an Indian infrastructure and construction company.
  • It is for an original full-length (Minimum 25 thousand words) novel written in English, or translated into English.
  • The prize for the first time was given to Pakistani novelist HM Naqvi in 2011.
  • In 2015, Jhumpa Lahiri won the prize for her novel The Lowland. Cyrus Mistry won it for Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer in 2014.

Reference:

http://dscprize.com/global/updates/anuradha-roy-wins-the-dsc-prize-for-south-asian-literature-2016.html

http://dscprize.com/global/updates/dsc-prize-2016-announces-a-shortlist-of-6-novels.html

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