Established in 2010, The Hindu Literary Prize, also known as The Hindu Best Fiction Award, is an Indian literary prize presented by The Hindu Literary Review, a section of the daily The Hindu. Indian works that have been translated into English are recognised. The Hindu Literary Prize was established to recognise authors who have dedicated their careers to exploring the human soul through words and concepts. The Hindu Best Fiction Award was the name of the prize’s inaugural year (2010). A non-fiction category was added as of 2018.
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See how the Literary Prize was Started
Through the Literary Review, The Hindu has always been dedicated to promoting excellent literature in both English and Indian languages. A prize to honour the best of Indian writing in English was suggested in 2010, the 20th year of the Literary Review. In addition, the Hindu Literary Prize was established to recognise authors who have devoted their entire careers to exploring the human spirit via their words and concepts.
Nomination Process for Submission of Literary Prize
Every year in May or June, publishers are encouraged to submit submissions, which can be complete novels or collections of short stories by a single author. Writers, academics, and critics make up the prestigious panel of judges that select the final winner. They begin with a long list of around 100 books, to the shortlist of about 7 books, after which they narrow it down to one. This award, which has been given the new name The Hindu Prize for Fiction, stands proudly among the many other highly coveted literary prizes in the globe.
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Since 2018, a new non-fiction category has been created to honour the best non-fiction works written by Indian authors in both the original language and its translations.
The Hindu Literary Prize Winner 2019
In 2019, Mirza Waheed for his book Tell Her Everything was awarded the Hindu Literary Prize for fiction, and Santanu Das for his book India, Empire, and First World War Culture, Santanu Das for non-fiction. Indian author Mirza Waheed was born and brought up in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, but currently resides in London. Mirza has written for the BBC, The Guardian, Granta, the journal Guernica, Al Jazeera English, and T he New York Times. Tell Her Everything, his third book, was published in January 2019. It tells the tale of a father who is getting ready to tell his grown daughter, whom he sent away to boarding school when she was a young girl, about his own shady history.
Santanu Das is an educator and novelist of Indian descent who is best known for his studies of First World War literature. He has been a Senior Fellow at All Souls College at Oxford since 2019 and a Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Oxford University since 2019. India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs by Santanu Das, based on ten years of research, recovers the sensual experience of combatants, non-combatants, and civilians from undivided India in the 1914–1918 conflict as well as their sociocultural, visual, and literary worlds.
Other popular winners of this award include Arundhati Roy, Amitav Ghosh, Anita Nair and Jerry Pinto.
Mirza Waheed - The Hindu Literary Prize Winner 2019
Santanu Das - The Hindu Literary Prize Winner 2019
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