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Jaipur : Jaipur Literature Festival Photo - The 2012 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is a literary prize awarded annually to writers of any ethnicity or nationality writing about South Asia themes such as culture, politics, history, or people. It is for an original full-length novel written in English, or translated into English. The winner receives US$50,000. The 2012 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature was announced in Jaipur Literature festival on Saturday, January 21, 2012. The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012 was awarded to Singapore based Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka for his book Chinaman (Random House, India), a novel that explores cricket as a metaphor to uncover a lost life and a lost history.

The US $50,000 DSC Prize along with a unique trophy was awarded to Shehan Karunatilaka by Her Majesty Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, Queen Mother of Bhutan at a memorable ceremony in Jaipur Literature Festival on Saturday, January 21, 2012.

Six authors were shortlisted for the DSC Prize 2012 from which the winner was announced. The other shortlisted authors were U.R. Ananthamurthy: Bharathipura (Oxford University Press, India, Translated by Susheela Punitha), Chandrakanta: A Street in Srinagar (Zubaan Books, India, Translated by Manisha Chaudhry), Usha K.R: Monkey-man (Penguin/Penguin India), Tabish Khair: The Thing About Thugs (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins-India), and Kavery Nambisan: The Story that Must Not Be Told (Viking/Penguin India).

The DSC Prize was judged by a Jury chaired by Ira Pande along with Faiza S Khan, Dr. Alastair Niven, Marie Brenner and Dr. Fakrul Alam.

In this photo, Queen Mother of Bhutan Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck is 1st from right, and Shehan Karunatilaka - winner of the US $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is 2nd from the right.

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