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.The Hindu Literary Prize, official website. 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"The Hindu Best Fiction Award 2010 Shortlist", The Hindu, October 1, 2010."Amitav Ghosh, Sunil Gangopadhyay Shortlisted for Hindu Prize." (September 26, 2011). The Hindustan Times [New Delhi]. Retrieved October 16, 2012. Serious Men, Manu JosephBenedicte Page. "Manu Joseph's controversial tale of caste wins Indian literary prize", The Guardian, 2 November 2010."Journalist's debut novel 'Serious Men' wins award." (3 November 2010). Mail Today [New Delhi]. Retrieved October 16, 2012. 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"Shortlisted works for 2011 prize", The Hindu, September 25, 2011 The Sly Company of People Who Care by Rahul Bhattacharya"The Hindu Literary Prize goes to debut novel", The Hindu, October 30, 2011. 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 Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil The Extras, Kiran Nagarkar Difficult Pleasures, Anjum Hasan Bitter Wormwood, Easterine Kire
2013 The Illicit Happiness of Other People, Manu Joseph Foreign, Sonora Jha Roll of Honour, Amandeep Sandhu Vanity Bagh, Anees Salim Another Man's Wife and Other Stories, Manjul Bajaj
2014 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
2015 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
2016
Half of What I Say, Anil Menon Jinnah Often Came To Our House, Kiran Doshi Kalkutta, Kunal Basu The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar The Island of Lost Girls, Manjula Padmanabhan
2017
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
2018 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 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
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