Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize shortlist announced!

August 27, 2016 19:38

This year's shortlist for the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize has been announced.

Four of our selected writers live and work outside the sub-continent. But their exceptional work is counter-balanced by equally noteworthy books written within India.

All the books this year should make us reconsider what we think we know but have either forgotten or not acknowledged: the long (and often sinister) shadows of particular events and people, the individual lives nestled inside large histories, lives that shimmer on the margins of our vision and as always, the darkness hidden inside families.

The shortlist includes:

Manu S Pillai's The Ivory Throne

Madhu Gurung's The Keeper of Memories

Sophia Khan's Yasmeen

Nisid Hajari's Midnights Furies

Akshay Mukul's Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India

Kanishk Tharoor's Swimmer Among the Stars

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