The winner of the 2019 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature will be announced at the Nepal Literature Festival in Pokhara on December 16.
The presenters of the award said that the felicitation ceremony is planned as the finale event of the four-day festival which will begin on December 13.
The DSC Prize winner is announced at a different South Asian country every year by rotation. The 2016 winner was announced at the Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka while in 2017 it was done at the Dhaka Lit Fest in Bangladesh. The DSC Prize 2018 was presented at the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet.
The USD 25,000 international literary prize, which focuses on South Asian fiction writing, is open to authors of any ethnicity or nationality as long as the writing is about South Asia and its people.
By showcasing and rewarding the best writing about the region, the prize aims to raise awareness of South Asian literature and culture around the world, and bring the best South Asian writing to a larger world-wide audience.
It encourages writing in regional languages and translations, and whenever a translated entry has won the award, the prize money has been equally shared between the author and the translator.
Speaking about the partnership, Surina Narula, co-founder of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature said, "Both the prize and the festival share a common vision to promote and highlight South Asian literature, and there is a rich literary landscape in Nepal which I hope will benefit from this partnership."
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