Sixteen authors, including Atiq Rahimi, Kishwar Desai and Manu Joseph, are in the race for the DSC Prize for the South Asian Literature 2012, which seeks to showcase the diverse ethnicity, culture and human stories from the region.
http://ummid.com/news/2011/September/14.09.2011/asia_lit_prize.htm
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