The Hindu Literary Prize

Winners and shortlist

• Serious Men, Manu Joseph
• Eunuch Park, Palash Krishna Mehrotra
• The Pleasure Seekers, Tishani Doshi
• Venus Crossing, Kalpana Swaminathan
• 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
• Way to Go, Upamanyu Chatterjee
• Neti, Neti, Anjum Hasan

• 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, translated by Monabi Mitra
• River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
• Litanies of Dutch Battery, translated work of N. S. Madhavan, translated by Rajesh Raja Mohan
• The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
• The Storyteller of Marrakesh by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

• Em and the Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto
• Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil
• The Extras, Kiran Nagarkar
• Difficult Pleasures, Anjum Hasan
• Bitter Wormwood, Easterine Kire

• The Illicit Happiness of Other People, Manu Joseph
• Foreign, Sonora Jha
• Roll of Honour, Amandeep Sandhu
• Vanity Bagh, Anees Salim
• Another Man's Wife and Other Stories, Manjul Bajaj

• The Competent Authority, Shovon Chowdhury
• Shadow Play, Shashi Deshpande
• A Bad Character, Deepti Kapur
• Idris, Keeper of the Light, Anita Nair
• The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
• The Book of Common Signs, Ashok Srinivasan

• Flood of Fire, Amitav Ghosh
• Odysseus Abroad, Amit Chaudhuri
• Seahorse, Janice Pariat
• Sleeping on Jupiter, Anuradha Roy
• The Patna Manual of Style, Siddharth Chowdhury
• When the River Sleeps, Easterine Kire

• Half of What I Say, Anil Menon
• Jinnah Often Came To Our House, Kiran Doshi
• Kalkutta, Kunal Basu
• ', Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
• The Island of Lost Girls, Manjula Padmanabhan

• 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
• *The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die, Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
• * 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