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Indian writer on UK short story award list
PTI Tuesday, May 15, 2007 19:56 IST
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LONDON: Rana Dasgupta, an Indian writer, has been short-listed for Britain's National Short Story Prize, considered as the world's biggest award for a single short story.
Dasgupta's first novel, Tokyo Cancelled, was published in 2005.
The prize, worth 15,000 pounds, was launched at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2005 and aims to do for the short story what the Booker does for the novel.
Unlike the Scotsman and Orange Short Story Award, it is open only to previously published writers.
Others in the short list are Michel Faber for his story The Safehouse, William Trevor, the Irish elder statesman who was knighted for services to literature in 2002, James Lasdun and Rose Tremain.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
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