Tag: first book prize
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Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize, 2009 shortlist
It’s not on the website yet, but sources say this is confirmed–fiction-heavy this year: Anuradha Roy: An Atlas of Impossible Longing Chandrahas Choudhury: Arzee the Dwarf Mimlu Sen: Baulsphere Mridula Koshy: If It Is Sweet Palash Krishna Mehrotra: Eunuch Park Parismita Singh: Hotel at the End of the World Preeta Samarasan: Evening is the Whole […]
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The 2009 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize: call for nominations
The Shakti Bhatt Foundation invites nominations for the 2009 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize.Last year’s winner was Pakistani novelist Mohammed Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes. • Entries may be in any genre: poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction (travel writing, autobiography, biography, and narrative journalism), and drama.• All authors from the subcontinent are eligible but their […]