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Amit Chaudhuri and Neel Mukherjee have both made the shortlist for the inaugural $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
Chaudhuri's The Immortals (Picador India) will compete against Neel Mukherjee's A Life Apart (Constable & Robinson), as wll as The Story of a Widow by Musharraf Ali Farooqui (Picador India), Atlas Of Unknowns by Tania James (Pocket Books), The Immigrant by Manju Kapur (Faber) and H M Naqvi's Home Boy (HarperCollins India).
The prize is awarded for the best work of fiction set in, or written about, the South Asian region, published in English, including translations.
The shortlist was revealed at a event last night (25th October) which closed the DSC South Asian Literature Festival in London. The winner will be announced at the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival in January 2011.