DSC Shortlist Has Three Americans

The shortlist for the US $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature has been announced and half of the shortlisted books are by writers living in the United States, including Jamil Jan Kochai
from California, Madhuri Vijay, who lives in Hawaii, and Sadia Abbas, based in New York.

The prize has been offered annually since 2010 to writers of any ethnicity or nationality writing about South Asia who produce a novel written in or translated into English. The prize announcement rotates between various events and will this year be announced at the IME Nepal Literature Festival in Nepal in January.

The full shortlist is as follows: 

* Amitabha Bagchi: Half the Night is Gone (Juggernaut Books, India)
* Jamil Jan Kochai: 99 Nights in Logar (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury, India & UK, and Viking, Penguin Random House, USA)
* Madhuri Vijay: The Far Field (Grove Press, Grove Atlantic, USA)
* Manoranjan Byapari: There’s Gunpowder in the Air (Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha, Eka, Amazon Westland, India)
* Raj Kamal Jha: The City and the Sea (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House, India)
* Sadia Abbas: The Empty Room (Zubaan Publishers, India)