''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. ...

sponsored by ''The Hindu Literary Review'' which is part of the newspaper '' The Hindu''. 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'', Manu Joseph *''Eunuch Park'', Palash Krishna Mehrotra *''The Pleasure Seekers'', Tishani Doshi *''Venus Crossing'',

Kalpana Swaminathan Kalpana Swaminathan (born 1956) is an Indian writer from Mumbai. She also writes with Ishrat Syed as Kalpish Ratna. Swaminathan and Syed are both surgeons. Swaminathan won the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award (Fiction) for ''Venus Crossing: ...

*''Come, Before Evening Falls'', Manjul Bajaj *'' Saraswati Park'', Anjali Joseph *''If I Could Tell You'', Soumya Bhattacharya *''The Thing About Thugs'', Tabish Khair *''The To-Let House'',

Daisy Hasan Daisy Hasan ( as, ডেইজী হাচান) is an Indian-English author from Shillong, Meghalaya and is the author of ''The To-Let House''. It was longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008. Biography Daisy Hasan teaches at the Univ ...

*''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 wa ...

*''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'' by

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

*''Litanies of Dutch Battery'', translated work of N. S. Madhavan, translated by Rajesh Raja Mohan *''The Folded Earth'' by

Anuradha Roy Anuradha may refer to: Film * ''Anuradha'' (1940 film), a 1940 Bollywood film * ''Anuradha'' (1960 film), a 1960 Hindi-language film * ''Anuradha'' (1967 film), a 1967 Indian Kannada film * ''Anuradha'' (2014 film), a 2014 Bollywood drama fil ...

*''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 Kiran Nagarkar (2 April 1942 – 5 September 2019) was an Indian novelist, playwright and screenwriter. A noted drama and film critic, he was one of the most significant writers of post-colonial India. Sanga, p. 177 Amongst his notable works a ...

*''Difficult Pleasures'', Anjum Hasan *''Bitter Wormwood'', Easterine Kire 2013 *''

The Illicit Happiness of Other People ''The Illicit Happiness of Other People'' is a 2012 drama novel by Manu Joseph. Plot Set in the Madras of the 1990s. Ousep Chacko is a journalist and a wannabe novelist who routinely wakes the neighbors after drinking sprees and then threaten ...

'', Manu Joseph *''Foreign'',

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*''Roll of Honour'',

Amandeep Sandhu Amandeep Sandhu (, born 1973) is a Punjabi writer and journalist who writes in English. His second novel ''Roll of Honour'' was nominated for Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction in 2013. Biography Sandhu was born in a Sikh family in Rourkela, O ...

* ''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'',

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*''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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'', 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'',

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*''Seahorse'', Janice Pariat *'' Sleeping on Jupiter'',

*''The Patna Manual of Style'',

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* ''When the River Sleeps'', Easterine Kire 2016 *''Half of What I Say'',

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* ''Jinnah Often Came To Our House'',

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*''Kalkutta'', Kunal Basu *'' The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories'', Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar *''The Island of Lost Girls'', Manjula Padmanabhan 2017 *''

Leila Leila may refer to: *Leila (name), a female given name, including a list of people with the name and its variants Film and television * ''Leila'' (1997 film), an Iranian film * ''Leïla'' (2001 film), a Danish film * ''Leila'' (TV series), a ...

'', Prayaag Akbar *''When I Hit You'', Meena Kandasamy *''

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 ...

'',

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*''The Small Town Sea'', Anees Salim * ''Temporary People'',

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2018 * Fiction **''

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'', Amitabha Bagchi **''A Day in the Life'', Anjum Hasan **''All the Lives We Never Lived'',

**''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 relativel ...

(translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha) ** ''Requiem in Raga Janki'',

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*Non-fiction ** ''Interrogating my Chandal Life: An Autobiography of a Dalit'', Manoranjan Byapari, translated by Sipra Mukherjee **''The Bengalis: A Portrait of a Community'',

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**''Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory'',

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**''Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature'',

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**''The Most Dangerous Place:A History of the United States in South Asia'', Srinath Raghavan 2019 * Fiction ** ''The Assassination of Indira Gandhi'',

** ''Tell Her Everything'',

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** ''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'',

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** ''The Anatomy of Hate'', Revati Laul

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hindu Literary Prize Awards established in 2011 Indian literary awards Fiction awards

Winners and shortlist

See also

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