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Debutant novelist Manil Suri, a professor of mathematics in Maryland, is among the finalists for the prestigious 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.
Suri's The Death of Vishnu: A Novel has been chosen in the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction category.
The winners will be announced at the University of California at Los Angeles on April 27.
On Wednesday, the novel had won the Discover Great New Writers 2001 Fiction Prize.
The award ceremony was held at a Union Square bookshop in New York. Edward Carey for Observatory Mansions and Leif Enger for Peace Like a River were the other fiction finalists and the judges included poet Mark Doty, and novelist Francisco Goldman.
Another Indian, Pankaj Mishra, had won the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction in 2000. He won the prize for The Romantics, a novel about an Indian college student and his political and emotional coming-of-age.
Now in their 22nd year, the LA Times Book Prizes acknowledge excellence in nine categories, including fiction, science and technology, mysteries-thrillers and poetry.
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