Three Indian writers make it to DSC Prize final shortlist 2017

The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature is an annual international literary prize awarded books about South Asia. The books have to be written in English or translated into English. For the past three years the award had been won by an Indian and the odds seems in India's favour again as three our of the five books shortlisted are by Indian authors. The other two are Sri Lankan and American.
Ritu Menon, Chair of the jury said: “After deliberating on the many exceptional qualities of the novels selected, and considering the disparities in our backgrounds, the jury was unanimous in its decision on the five shortlisted titles.All five display a remarkable skill in animating current universal preoccupations in unconventional idioms, and from a distinctively South Asian perspective.”
The winner will be announced at a special Award Ceremony at the Dhaka Literary Festival in Bangladesh on November 18, 2017. The award is a generous $25,000 USD.
The five shortlisted entries are:
Anjali Joseph: The Living (Fourth Estate, HarperCollins, UK)
Anuk Arudpragasam: The Story of a Brief Marriage (Granta Books, UK)
Aravind Adiga: Selection Day (Fourth Estate, HarperCollins, India)
Karan Mahajan: The Association of Small Bombs (Chatto & Windus, UK & Viking, USA & Fourth
Estate, HarperCollins, India)
Stephen Alter: In the Jungles of the Night (Aleph Book Company, India)