''The Hindu'' Literary Prize or ''The Hindu'' Best Fiction Award, established in 2010, is an Indian

literary award A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. M ...

sponsored by ''The Hindu Literary Review'' which is part of the newspaper ''

The Hindu ''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the sec ...

''. It recognizes Indian works in English and English translation. The first year, 2010, the award was called ''The Hindu'' Best Fiction Award. Starting in 2018 a non-fiction category was included.

Winners and shortlist

Blue Ribbon () = winner. 2010 * ''

Serious Men ''Serious Men'' is a 2010 drama fiction novel written by journalist Manu Joseph. The story follows Ayyan Mani, a middle-aged Dalit working as an assistant to a Brahmin astronomer at the Institute of Theory and Research in Mumbai. He lives in ...

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Manu Joseph Manu Joseph (born 22 July 1974) is an Indian journalist and writer. He is the former editor of ''Open'' magazine. Life and career Manu was born in Kottayam, Kerala, and grew up in Chennai. His father Joseph Madapally is a film maker who directe ...

*''Eunuch Park'', Palash Krishna Mehrotra *''The Pleasure Seekers'', Tishani Doshi *''Venus Crossing'', Kalpana Swaminathan *''Come, Before Evening Falls'', Manjul Bajaj *''

Saraswati Park ''Saraswati Park'' is a 2010 drama novel written by Anjali Joseph. Set in Mumbai, the book follows the story of Mohan Karekar, a pensive letter-writer living in the fictional housing complex of Saraswati Park. When his gay nephew, Ashish, move ...

'', Anjali Joseph *''If I Could Tell You'',

Soumya Bhattacharya Soumya Bhattacharya (born 1969) is an Indian journalist and author. Born in Kolkata, Bhattacharya grew up and studied in Kolkata and London. As a journalist, he has worked on ''The Times'' (London), ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', ''India Toda ...

*''The Thing About Thugs'', Tabish Khair *''The To-Let House'', Daisy Hasan *''Way to Go'',

Upamanyu Chatterjee Upamanyu Chatterjee (born 1959) is an author and a retired Indian civil servant. His works include the novel '' English, August: An Indian story'', '' The Last Burden'', '' The Mammaries of the Welfare State'' and ''Weight Loss''. In 2008, he was ...

*''Neti, Neti'', Anjum Hasan 2011 * ''The Sly Company of People Who Care'' by Rahul Bhattacharya *''Bharathipura'', translated work of U. R. Ananthamurthy, translated by Sushila Punitha *''The Fakir'', translated work of

Sunil Gangopadhyay Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly (7 September 1934 – 23 October 2012) was an Indian poet, historian and novelist in the Bengali language based in the city of Kolkata. He is a former Sheriff of Calcutta. Gangopadhyay obtained his m ...

, translated by Monabi Mitra *''

River of Smoke ''River of Smoke'' (2011) is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh. It is the second volume of the Ibis trilogy. Synopsis The promotional text refers to the storyline which can be summarized as follows: After the incidents on Ibis, which was c ...

'' by

Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956)Ghosh, Amitav
, ''

*''Litanies of Dutch Battery'', translated work of

N. S. Madhavan N. S. Madhavan (born 9 September 1948) is an Indian writer of Malayalam literature. Known for his novel, ''Lanthan Batheriyile Luthiniyakal'' (Litanies of the Dutch Battery) and a host of short stories such as ''Higuita'', ''Thiruthu'', ''Chulai ...

, translated by Rajesh Raja Mohan *''The Folded Earth'' by Anuradha Roy *''The Storyteller of Marrakesh'' by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya 2012 * '' Em and the Big Hoom'' by

Jerry Pinto Jerry Pinto (born 1966) is a Mumbai-based Indian English poet, novelist, short story writer, translator, as well as journalist. Pinto's works include '' Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb'' (2006), which won the Best Book on Cinema Award at ...

*'' Narcopolis'',

Jeet Thayil Jeet Thayil (born 1959) is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He is the author of several poetry collections, including ''These Errors Are Correct'' (2008), which won the Sahitya Akademi Award. His first novel, '' Narcopolis,'' ( ...

*''The Extras'', Kiran Nagarkar *''Difficult Pleasures'', Anjum Hasan *''Bitter Wormwood'',

Easterine Kire Easterine Kire is a poet and author who currently lives in northern Norway. The majority of her writings are based in the lived realities of the people in Nagaland in north-east India. Her motivation to write is summed up in this statement by he ...

2013 *'' The Illicit Happiness of Other People'',

*''Foreign'', Sonora Jha *''Roll of Honour'', Amandeep Sandhu * ''Vanity Bagh'', Anees Salim *''Another Man's Wife and Other Stories'', Manjul Bajaj 2014 *''The Competent Authority'', Shovon Chowdhury *''Shadow Play'',

Shashi Deshpande Shashi Deshpande (born 1938) is an Indian novelist. She is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Padma Shri Award in 1990 and 2009 respectively. Biography She was born in Dharwad, Karnataka, the second daughter of the Kannada dramati ...

*''A Bad Character'',

Deepti Kapur Dipti (Nepali: दीप्ति) is a Hindu feminine given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and different ...

*''Idris, Keeper of the Light'',

Anita Nair Anita Nair (born 26 January 1966) is an Indian novelist who writes her books in English. She is best known for her novels '' A Better Man'', ''Mistress'', and '' Lessons in Forgetting''. She has also written poetry, essays, short stories, crime ...

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The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey ''The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey'' is a novel by Indian author Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar. Published in the year 2014, this was his first book. For this novel, Shekhar won the 2015 Yuva Puraskar, was shortlisted for the 2014 Crossword Book A ...

'', Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar * ''The Book of Common Signs'', Ashok Srinivasan 2015 *'' Flood of Fire'',

Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956)Ghosh, Amitav
, ''

*''Odysseus Abroad'', Amit Chaudhuri *''Seahorse'', Janice Pariat *'' Sleeping on Jupiter'', Anuradha Roy *''The Patna Manual of Style'',

Siddharth Chowdhury Siddhartha or Siddharth is the birth name of the founder of Buddhism, Gautama Buddha. Siddhartha may also refer to: Books * ''Siddhartha'' (novel), about a fictional contemporary of the Buddha, by Hermann Hesse Film and TV * ''Siddhartha'' (1 ...

* ''When the River Sleeps'',

2016 *''Half of What I Say'',

Anil Menon Anil Menon is an Indian writer of speculative fiction, as well as a computer scientist with a Ph.D. from Syracuse University, who has authored research papers and edited books on Evolutionary Algorithms. His research addressed the mathematic ...

* ''Jinnah Often Came To Our House'', Kiran Doshi *''Kalkutta'', Kunal Basu *'' The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories'', Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar *''The Island of Lost Girls'',

Manjula Padmanabhan Manjula Padmanabhan (born 23 June 1953) is an Indian playwright, journalist, comic strip artist, and children's book author. Her works explore science, technology, gender, and international inequalities. Life Padmanabhan was born in Delhi in ...

2017 *'' Leila'', Prayaag Akbar *''When I Hit You'',

Meena Kandasamy Ilavenil Meena Kandasamy (born 1984) is an Indian poet, fiction writer, translator and activist from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Meena published two collections of poetry, ''Touch'' (2006) and ''Ms. Militancy'' (2010). From 2001-2002, she ...

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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness ''The Ministry of Utmost Happiness'' is the second novel by Indian writer Arundhati Roy, published in 2017, twenty years after her debut, ''The God of Small Things''. Plot The novel weaves together the stories of people navigating some of t ...

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Arundhati Roy Suzanna Arundhati Roy (born 24 November 1961) is an Indian author best known for her novel ''The God of Small Things'' (1997), which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author. S ...

*''The Small Town Sea'', Anees Salim * ''Temporary People'', Deepak Unnikrishnan 2018 * Fiction **'' Half the Night is Gone'', Amitabha Bagchi **''A Day in the Life'', Anjum Hasan **''All the Lives We Never Lived'', Anuradha Roy **''Poonachi'', Perumal Murugan (translated from Tamil by N. Kalyan Raman) **''The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die'',

Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay ( bn, শীর্ষেন্দু মুখোপাধ্যায়; born 2 November 1935) is a Bengali author from India. He has written stories for both adults and children. He is known for creating the relative ...

(translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha) ** ''Requiem in Raga Janki'', Neelum Saran Gour *Non-fiction ** ''Interrogating my Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit'', Manoranjan Byapari, translated by Sipra Mukherjee **''The Bengalis: A Portrait of a Community'', Sudeep Chakravarti **''Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory'', Aanchal Malhotra **''Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature'', Jairam Ramesh **''The Most Dangerous Place:A History of the United States in South Asia'',

Srinath Raghavan Srinath Raghavan is an Indian historian of contemporary history. He is a professor of history and international relations at Ashoka University and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is also a visiting senior r ...

2019 * Fiction ** ''The Assassination of Indira Gandhi'',

** ''Tell Her Everything'',

Mirza Waheed Mirza Waheed is a novelist who was born and raised in Srinagar but now lives in London. Writing career Mirza has written for the BBC, The Guardian, Granta, Guernica (magazine), Al Jazeera English and The New York Times. His first novel, '' ...

** ''The Queen of Jasmine Country'', Sharanya Mannivanan ** ''Latitudes of Longing'', Shubangi Swarup ** ''Heat'', Poomani Kalyan Raman * Non-fiction ** ''Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From'', Tony Joseph ** ''Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication'', Thomas Abraham ** ''The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts'', Gautam Bhatia ** ''India, Empire, and First World War Culture'', Santanu Das ** ''The Anatomy of Hate'', Revati Laul

References

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Winners and shortlist

See also

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