Dsc Prize for South Asian Literature, 2019

Founded by Surina and Manhad Narula in 2010, the US $25,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is one of the most lofty worldwide artistic honors explicitly centered around South Asian composition. It is a one of a kind and pined for prize and is available to writers of any ethnicity or nationality as long as the composing is about South Asia and its kin. Subsequent to reporting its victors in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and India, the DSC Prize 2019 Award function is to occur in Nepal Literature Festival in Pokhara on December 16, 2019.

The felicitation service is arranged as the finale occasion of the Nepal Literature Festival which happens from 13 to 16 December, 2019. Consistent with its South Asian pith, the peripatetic DSC Prize declares its champ at an alternate South Asian nation consistently by revolution. The DSC Prize 2016 victor was reported at the Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka while the DSC Prize 2017 was granted at the Dhaka Lit Fest in Bangladesh, and the DSC Prize 2018 was introduced at the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet in India. This year the prize is making a trip to Nepal where it will commend the shortlisted creators and report the ninth victor of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.

Talking about the association, Surina Narula, prime supporter of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature stated, "We are pleased to join forces with the Nepal Literature Festival to declare the champ of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019 in the beautiful city of Pokhara in December. Both the prize and the celebration share a typical vision to advance and feature South Asian writing, and there is a rich artistic scene in Nepal which I expectation will profit by this association."

Managed by the South Asian Literature Prize and Events Trust, the DSC Prize prides itself on an exhaustive and straightforward making a decision about procedure and is demonstrated on worldwide prescribed procedures. At the center of the procedure is the 5 part worldwide jury board containing abstract illuminating presences drawn from differing topographies and skill, which is exclusively engaged to mediate on the sections got, and their choice is conclusive.

Past champs of the prize have been H M Naqvi of Pakistan, Shehan Karunatilaka of Sri Lanka, Jeet Thayil and Cyrus Mistry from India, American creator of Indian starting point Jhumpa Lahiri, Anuradha Roy from India, Anuk Arudpragasam of Sri Lanka, and Jayant Kaikini alongside interpreter Tejaswini Niranjana of India who won the prize a year ago.