Indian American Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri
has won prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015. On 22th
February, 2015.
The Indian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri has won Asia’s
richest literary prize for her novel The Lowland, which pivots around the
Naxalite uprisings of the 1960s.
Fifth edition of this prize was announced at the Jaipur
Literature Festival. She has received the prestigious $50,000 DSC Prize
for her book the Lowland.
It is awarded annually to writers of any ethnicity or nationality writing about South Asia such as culture, politics, history, or people. It was instituted in 2011. It is funded by infrastructure company the DSC Group.
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