Nov 20 2017
Anuk Arudpragasam has won the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2017 for his novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage, published by Granta in the UK, and by Flatiron in the USA
Arudpragasam was awarded the $25,000 (£18,830) prize along with a unique trophy by Hon’ble Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, minister of finance of Bangladesh at the Dhaka Literature Festival in Bangladesh.
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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