Jury for DSC Prize 2012 announced
The five member judging panel for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012 was announced earlier this week. The jury comprises of Dr Alastair Niven, Dr. Fakrul Alam, Faiza S Khan, Marie Brenner and Ira Pande as chair.
The jury will be responsible for judging the entries over a period of three and a half months, to arrive at a longlist in September, followed by a shortlist of five or six titles in October 2011.
The previous shortlist was announced at the DSC South Asian Literature Festival’s glamourous closing gala at the Globe Theatre in London last October.
The inaugural Prize of $50,000 was won by HM Naqvi for his novel Home Boy, and was announced at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival earlier this year.
The hefty Prize is unique in that it is not ethnicity driven in terms of the author’s origin. Rather, it is open to any author belonging to any part of the globe as long as the work is based on the South Asian region, its culture or its people.
The Prize is guided by an international advisory committee comprising of numerous prominent figures including MJ Akbar, Urvashi Butalia, Tina Brown, William Dalrymple, Lord Meghnad Desai, David Godwin, Surina Narula, Senath Walter Perera, Nayantara Sehgal and Michael Worton – several of whom are also involved in the DSC South Asian Literature Festival.
Speaking on the occasion Pande said, “I am delighted and honoured to be part of an effort to showcase South Asia whose rich literature draws on several languages and cultures. I am sure that this handsome award will encourage translations that will unveil this extraordinary treasury of imagination to the world outside it.”
The call for entries is currently open till 15 May 2011 and submissions can be made through the prize’s website.
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