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Jeet Thayil, who missed out on the Man Booker Prize for Fiction last night, has been longlisted for the £32,000 DSC prize for South Asian Literature 2013, for his debut Narcopolis (Faber).
Chair of the jury K Satchidanandan praised the 16-strong longlist, and said: "They were charmingly diverse in their theme and treatment and well aware of the political, cultural and psychological dimensions of life in the societies and people they were dealing with, making our reading a rich, educative as well as aesthetic experience."
The longlist looks to reward books that "represent the diverse cultural landscapes of South Asia through a vibrant literary flourish".
The shortlist for the prize will be announced on 20th November 2012, with the winner to be declared at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival in January 2013.
The longlist:
Jamil Ahmad The Wandering Falcon (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin India)
Alice Albinia Leela’s Book (Harvill Secker)
Tahmima Anam The Good Muslim (Penguin)
Rahul Bhattacharya The Sly Company of People Who Care (Picador)
Roopa Farooki The Flying Man (Headline Review)
Musharraf Ali Farooqi Between Clay and Dust (Aleph Book Company, India)
Amitav Ghosh River of Smoke (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin India)
Niven Govinden Black Bread White Beer (Fourth Estate/ HarperCollins India)
Sunetra Gupta So Good in Black (Clockroot Books, Massachusetts)
Mohammed Hanif Our Lady of Alice Bhatti (Random House India)
Jerry Pinto Em and the Big Hoom (Aleph Book Company, India)
Uday Prakash The Walls of Delhi (translated by Jason Grunebaum; UWA Publishing, W. Australia)
Anuradha Roy The Folded Earth (Hachette India)
Saswati Sengupta The Song Seekers (Zubaan, India)
Geetanjali Shree The Empty Space (translated by Nivedita Menon; HarperPerennial/ HarperCollins India)
Jeet Thayil Narcopolis (Faber)