The Hindu Literary Prize Explained

The Hindu Literary Prize
Subheader:	Literary award
Awarded For:	Outstanding work by an Indian Author
Sponsor:	The Hindu
Firstawarded:	2010
Lastawarded:	2019
Holder Label:	Most recent winner
Holder:	Tell Her Everything, Mirza Waheed (for fiction) India, Empire, and First World War Culture, Santanu Das (for non-fiction)
Award2 Type:	First winner
Award3 Type:	Last winner
Website:	thehindulfl.com

The Hindu Literary Prize or The Hindu Best Fiction Award, established in 2010, is an Indian literary award sponsored by The Hindu Literary Review which is part of the newspaper The Hindu.^[1] It recognizes Indian works in English and English translation. The first year, 2010, the award was called The Hindu Best Fiction Award. Starting in 2018 a non-fiction category was included.

Winners and shortlist

Blue Ribbon = winner.

2010^{[2] [3]}

• Serious Men, Manu Joseph^{[4] [5]}
• Eunuch Park, Palash Krishna Mehrotra
• The Pleasure Seekers, Tishani Doshi
• Venus Crossing, Kalpana Swaminathan
• Come, Before Evening Falls, Manjul Bajaj
• Saraswati Park, Anjali Joseph
• If I Could Tell You, Soumya Bhattacharya
• The Thing About Thugs, Tabish Khair
• The To-Let House, Daisy Hasan
• Way to Go, Upamanyu Chatterjee
• Neti, Neti, Anjum Hasan

2011^[6]

• The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya^{[7] [8]}
• Bharathipura, translated work of U. R. Ananthamurthy, translated by Sushila Punitha
• The Fakir, translated work of Sunil Gangopadhyay, translated by Monabi Mitra
• River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
• Litanies of Dutch Battery, translated work of N. S. Madhavan, translated by Rajesh Raja Mohan
• The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
• The Storyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

2012^[9]

• Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto
• Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil
  • • The Extras, Kiran Nagarkar Difficult Pleasures, Anjum Hasan Bitter Wormwood, Easterine Kire

2013^{[10] [11]}

• The Illicit Happiness of Other People, Manu Joseph
• Foreign, Sonora Jha
• Roll of Honour, Amandeep Sandhu
• Vanity Bagh, Anees Salim^[12]
• Another Man's Wife and Other Stories, Manjul Bajaj

2014^[13]

• The Competent Authority, Shovon Chowdhury
• Shadow Play, Shashi Deshpande
• A Bad Character, Deepti Kapur
• Idris, Keeper of the Light, Anita Nair
• The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
• The Book of Common Signs, Ashok Srinivasan^[14]

2015^[15]

• Flood of Fire, Amitav Ghosh
• Odysseus Abroad, Amit Chaudhuri
• Seahorse, Janice Pariat
• Sleeping on Jupiter, Anuradha Roy
• The Patna Manual of Style, Siddharth Chowdhury
• When the River Sleeps, Easterine Kire^[16]

2016^[17]

• Half of What I Say, Anil Menon
• Jinnah Often Came To Our House, Kiran Doshi^[18]
• Kalkutta, Kunal Basu
• , Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
• The Island of Lost Girls, Manjula Padmanabhan

2017^[19]

• Leila, Prayaag Akbar
• When I Hit You, Meena Kandasamy
• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy
• The Small Town Sea, Anees Salim
• Temporary People, Deepak Unnikrishnan^[20]

2018^{[21] [22]}

• Fiction
  • Half the Night is Gone, Amitabha Bagchi
  • A Day in the Life, Anjum Hasan
  • All the Lives We Never Lived, Anuradha Roy
  • Poonachi, Perumal Murugan (translated from Tamil by N. Kalyan Raman)
  • The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die, Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha)
  • Requiem in Raga Janki, Neelum Saran Gour
• Non-fiction
  • Interrogating my Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit, Manoranjan Byapari, translated from Bengali by Sipra Mukherjee
  • The Bengalis: A Portrait of a Community, Sudeep Chakravarti
  • Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory, Aanchal Malhotra
  • Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature, Jairam Ramesh
  • The Most Dangerous Place:A History of the United States in South Asia, Srinath Raghavan

2019^{[23] [24]}

• Fiction
  • The Assassination of Indira Gandhi, Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Tell Her Everything, Mirza Waheed
  • The Queen of Jasmine Country, Sharanya Manivannan
  • Latitudes of Longing, Shubangi Swarup
  • Heat, Poomani, translated from Tamil by Kalyan Raman
• Non-fiction
  • Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From, Tony Joseph
  • Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication, Thomas Abraham
  • The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts, Gautam Bhatia
  • India, Empire, and First World War Culture, Santanu Das
  • The Anatomy of Hate, Revati Laul

See also

• Lit for Life

Notes and References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20110426083156/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2011/04/03/stories/2011040350010100.htm The Hindu Literary Prize
2. http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article806769.ece "The Hindu Best Fiction Award 2010 Shortlist"
3. "Amitav Ghosh, Sunil Gangopadhyay Shortlisted for Hindu Prize." (September 26, 2011). The Hindustan Times [New Delhi]. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
4. Benedicte Page. "Manu Joseph's controversial tale of caste wins Indian literary prize", The Guardian, 2 November 2010.
5. "Journalist's debut novel 'Serious Men' wins award." (3 November 2010). Mail Today [New Delhi]. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
6. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2485103.ece "Shortlisted works for 2011 prize"
7. http://www.thehindu.com/arts/books/article2583075.ece?homepage=true "The Hindu Literary Prize goes to debut novel"
8. Web site: Pandit. Srimoyee. Cricket Journalist Rahul Bhattacharya bagged the The Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction 2011 . Jagranjosh.com . 3 November 2011 . 16 October 2012.
9. Web site: The Hindu Literary Prize goes to Jerry Pinto . . Staff writer . Staff writer . February 17, 2013 . February 18, 2013.
10. Web site: The Shortlist for The Hindu Best Fiction Prize Declared . https://web.archive.org/web/20131109165016/http://www.currentbooks.com/the-shortlist-for-the-hindu-best-fiction-prize-declared.html. November 9, 2013. Current Books . November 9, 2013 . November 9, 2013.
11. Web site: The Hindu Prize 2013 Shortlist . The Hindu . Staff writer . Staff writer . November 9, 2013 . November 9, 2013.
12. Web site: Anees Salim bags The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013 . The Hindu . Staff writer . Staff writer . January 14, 2014 . January 14, 2014.
13. Web site: Here's the shortlist . The Hindu . October 5, 2014 . December 24, 2014.
14. News: Ashok Srinivasan is winner of The Hindu Prize 2014 . The Hindu . Deepa H. Ramakrishnan . January 17, 2015 . January 18, 2015.
15. Web site: The Hindu Prize 2015 Shortlist . The Hindu . October 31, 2015 . December 2, 2015.
16. Web site: Lit for Life: The Hindu Prize for 2015 goes to Easterine Kire . The Hindu . Zubeda Hamid . January 17, 2016 . January 17, 2016.
17. Web site: Shortlist for The Hindu Prize 2016 announced . The Hindu . October 16, 2016 . September 13, 2017.
18. Web site: Kiran Doshi wins 'The Hindu Prize 2016' . The Hindu . January 15, 2017 . September 13, 2017.
19. Web site: The Hindu Prize 2017 shortlist is out . The Hindu . October 28, 2017 . October 29, 2017.
20. Web site: Deepak Unnikrishnan bags 'The Hindu Prize 2017' for 'Temporary People' . . January 15, 2018 . January 19, 2018.
21. Web site: The Hindu Prize 2018 shortlists announced . The Hindu . October 15, 2018 . June 13, 2019.
22. Web site: THE HINDU PRIZE 2018. May 13, 2019.
23. News: 2020-01-08. Shortlists for The Hindu Prize 2019 announced. en-IN. The Hindu. 2020-12-09. 0971-751X.
24. News: Krithika. R.. 2020-03-28. Freedom, we choose. en-IN. The Hindu. 2020-12-09. 0971-751X.