For the second successive year, a debut novel struck gold at The
Hindu's "Lit for Life" literary festival. Rahul Bhattacharya bagged
the 'The Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction 2011' for his The Sly
Company of People Who Care.
The book, which narrates a young Indian's Caribbean adventures in the
company of a Guyanese diamond-hunter, was virtually deadlocked for the
prize with the English translation of N.S. Madhavan's Litanies of
Dutch Battery, but eventually won the day for "its consummate
artistry, its refusal to exoticise India — or Guyana … and its
non-judgmental attitude to the characters.
The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh and a plaque.
Presenting the prize to the Delhi-based author, writer and MP Shashi
Tharoor said it was important to support the efforts of The Hindu to
celebrate good writing in English in fiction, especially as the
challenge of getting people to read in an increasingly
television-dominated culture was a formidable one.
In his acceptance speech, Mr. Bhattacharya, who is also a cricket
writer, joked that he was feeling a bit like (Mohinder) Amarnath
running through the West Indies line-up in 1983 (when India won the
World Cup).
source: http://www.allcurrentaffairs.tk/2011/10/hindu-literary-prize-goes-to-debut.html#ixzz1cffbLayT
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