Five books from India in race for Commonwealth Writer's Prize

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Of the 21 nominees for the Commonwealth Book Prize 2013 shortlist for novelists whose first books have been published in the last year, five writers are Indian. Em and the Big Hoom, Jerry Pinto The story is set in Bombay in the last decades of the ...

New Delhi: Booker nominee Jeet Thayil, who has won the Sahitya Akademi and the DSC South Asian literature awards, leads the Indian race for the 2013 Commonwealth Book and Short Story Prizes. He is among six writers from the country who figure in the ...

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