The Hindu Literary Prize: Winner, Nomination Process, History

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.