DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is a literary prize awarded annually to writers of any ethnicity or nationality writing about South Asia

South Asia

South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries to the west and the east...

 themes such as culture, politics, history, or people. It is for an original full-length novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 written in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, or translated into English. The first award is for novels published between 1 April 2009 and 31 March 2010. The first winner will be announced in January, 2011. The winner receives The prize is sponsored by DSC Limited (formerly known as D. S. Constructions Ltd.), an Indian infrastructure and construction company.

Winners and shortlist

Blue Ribbon = winner

2012

• U.R. Ananthamurthy, Bharathipura (Oxford University Press, India, Translated by Susheela Punitha)
• Chandrakanta
  Chandrakanta (author)
  Chandrakanta is a writer, born in Srinagar, India. She has written many novels and stories in the Hindi language including the epic Katha Satisar, which was awarded the Vyas Samman prize in 2005....
  
  , A Street in Srinagar (Zubaan Books, India, translated by Manisha Chaudhry)
• Usha K.R, Monkey-man (Penguin/Penguin India)
• Shehan Karunatilaka
  Shehan Karunatilaka
  Shehan Karunatilaka is a Sri Lankan writer most notable for winning the 2008 Gratiaen Prize for his book Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew. In his own words, Chinaman used Cricket as a device to write about Sri Lankan society. His debut novel, The Painter, was shortlisted for the Gratiaen in...
  
  , Chinaman (Random House, India)
• Tabish Khair
  Tabish Khair
  Tabish Khair is an Indian English author and associate professor in the Department of English, University of Aarhus in Denmark...
  
  , The Thing About Thugs (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins India)
• Kavery Nambisan, The Story that Must Not Be Told (Viking/Penguin India)

2011
H. M. Naqvi

H. M. Naqvi

H.M. Naqvi is a Karachi-based novelist who is the author of Home Boy, winner of the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.-Life:...

, Home Boy (HarperCollins India)

• Amit Chaudhuri
  Amit Chaudhuri
  Amit Chaudhuri is an internationally recognised Indian English author and academic. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of East Anglia.-Life:...
  
  , The Immortals (Picador India)
• Musharraf Ali Farooqi
  Musharraf Ali Farooqi
  Musharraf Ali Farooqi is a Pakistani-Canadian writer, translator and journalist.-Biography:Farooqi received his early education in Hyderabad, at St...
  
  , The Story of a Widow (Picador India)
• Tania James
  Tania James
  Tania James is an Indian-American novelist. Born in Chicago, Illinois, James was raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated from Harvard University with a BA in film making. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from Columbia’s School of the Arts in 2006.Her first novel, Atlas of Unknowns was...
  
  , Atlas Of Unknowns (Pocket Books)
• Manju Kapur
  Manju Kapur
  Manju Kapur is an Indian novelist. Her first novel, Difficult Daughters, won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia....
  
  , The Immigrant (Faber & Faber)
• Neel Mukherjee, A Life Apart (Constable & Robinson)