Jury of DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015 to be chaired by Keki N Daruwalla

The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature has announced its jury for its 2015 edition. The international jury panel will be chaired by Keki N Daruwalla, leading  Indian writer and poet. He is joined by John Freeman - author, literary critic and former editor of Granta from the US, Maithree Wickramasinghe - a Professor  of English at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka and the University of Sussex and an expert on gender studies; Michael Worton - Emeritus Professor at UCL (University College London) who has written extensively on modern literature and art; and Razi Ahmed - the founding director of the annual, not-for-profit Lahore  Literary Festival (LLF). 

The jury is currently in the process of judging more than 75 entries that were received this year by the DSC Prize Secretariat from publishers across the world. The Longlist will be announced in New Delhi on October 20, followed by the 

Shortlist announcement in London November 27. The winner of the US $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015 will be announced at the Jaipur Literature Festival in January 2015. 

The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature was earlier won by HM Naqvi for Home Boy, Shehan Karunatilaka for Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew and by Jeet Thayil for Narcopolis. Last year’s DSC prize was awarded to Cyrus Mistry for his engaging look into Parsi life in Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer.