Amitabha Bagchi won 2019 DSC Prize
The 8th edition of the IME Nepal Literature Festival, held from December 13-16 at Pokhara, concluded with the announcement of the winner of DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019.
The $25,000 award went to Amitabha Bagchi for his 2018 novel, Half the Night is Gone.
The DSC Prize, instituted in 2010, awards fiction from the South Asian region, which includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, as well as from the diaspora.
Ninety books had been submitted for the prize this year.
The 8th edition of the IME Nepal Literature Festival, held from December 13-16 at Pokhara, concluded with the announcement of the winner of DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019.
The $25,000 award went to Amitabha Bagchi for his 2018 novel, Half the Night is Gone.
The DSC Prize, instituted in 2010, awards fiction from the South Asian region, which includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, as well as from the diaspora.
Ninety books had been submitted for the prize this year.
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