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Indian Literary awards: Hindu Literary Prize, History, Winner List
Indian Literary award: Hindu Literary Prize, History, Winners List
The Hindu Literary Prize an Indian Literary award also called as the Hindu Best Fiction award. It is established in 2010.
The Hindu Literary Prize is awarded by Hindu Literary Review (part of The Hindu Newspaper). It recognizes Indian works in English and English translation.
The first recipient of Hindu Literary Prize in 2010:
Manu Joseph (Serious Men), Palash Krishna Mehrotra (Eunuch Park), Tishani Doshi (The Pleasure Seekers) Kalpana Swaminathan (Venus Crossing).
Manjula Bajaj (Come, Before Evening Falls), Anjali Joseph (Saraswati Park), Soumya Bhattacharya (if I Could Tell You), Tabish Khair (The Thing about Thugs).
Anjum Hasan (Neti, Neti), Daisy Hasan (The To-Let House) and Upamanyu Chatterjee (Way to Go).
Hindu Literary Prize Winners 2011:
The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya and Bharathipura, Translated work of U. R Ananthamurthy, Translated by Sushila Punitha.
The Fakir, Translated work of Sunil Gangopadhyay, translated by Monabi Mitra and River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh.
Litanies of Dutch Battery, translated work of N. S Madhavan, translated by Rajesh Raja Mohan and The Folder Earth by Anuradha Roy. The Storyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya.
Hindu Literary Prize Winners 2012:
Em and the Big Hoon by Jerry Pinto, Narcopolis Jeet Thayil, Kiran Nagarkar (The Extras), Anjum Hasan (Difficult Pleasures) and Easterine Kire (Bitter Wormwood).
Hindu Literary Prize Winners 2013:
Manu Joseph for “The Illicit Happiness of Other People, Sonora Jha (Foreign), Amandeep Sandhu for Roll of Honour, Anees Salim for “Vanity Bagh” and Manjula Bajaj for Another Man’s Wife and Other Stories.
Hindu Literary Prize Winners 2014:
Shovon Chowdhury for “The Competent Authority, Shashi Deshpande for “Shadow Play, Deepti Kapur for “ A Bad Character”, Anita Nair for Idris, Keeper of the Light”.
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar for “The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey” and Ashok Srinivasan for “The Book of Common Signs.
In 2015 Hindu Literary Prize Winners:
Amitav Ghosh for “Flood of Fife”, Amit Chaudhuri for Odysseus Abroad”, Janice Pariat “Seahorse”, Anuradha Roy for “Sleeping on Jupiter”, Siddharth Chowdhury for “The Patna Manual of Style” and Easterine Kire for “When the River Sleeps”.
In 2016 Hindu Literary Prize Winners:
Anil Menon for “Half of What I Say” Kiran Doshi for “ Jinnah Often Came To Our House”, Kunal Basu for “ Kalkutta”, Hansda Sowendra Shekhar for “ The Adivasi Will Not Dance” and Manjula Padmanabhan for “ The Island of Lost Girls”.
Hindu Literary Prize Winners 2017:
Prayaag Akbar (Leila), Meena Kandasamy (When I Hit You), Arundhati Roy (The Ministry of Utmost Happiness), Anees Salim (The Small Town Sea), Deepak Unnikrishnan (Temporary People).
