 Seven writers, including Amitav Ghosh, Sunil Gangopadhyay and U.R. Ananthamurthy, are in the fray for the Hindu Best Fiction Award 2011, a Chennai based newspaper announced.
The award will be presented October 30 in Chennai.
The shortlist includes 'River of Smoke' by Amitav Ghosh, 'The Fakir' (translated from Bengali) by Sunil Gangopadhyay, 'Bharatipura' by U.R. Ananthamurthy (translated from Malayalam), 'Litanies of the Dutch Battery' by N.S. Madhavan (translated from Malayalam), 'The Folded Earth' by Anuradha Roy, 'The Sly Company of People Who Care' by Rahul Bhattacharya, and 'The Storyteller of Marrakesh' by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya.
The jury had received 129 submissions for the award this year.
|
