Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation Announces Shortlist

After a year of Indian literature in translation dominating worldwide headlines, literary festivals, book party gossip, and literarily oriented social media feeds, there is another cause to rejoice: The Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation, a new annual prize established by the American venture capital firm Armory Square, has announced its shortlist of seven works translated from five South Asian languages: Urdu, Assamese, Tamil, Hindi, and Sri Lankan Tamil.

According to the prize announcement, "of the nearly 7,600 books published in translation in the United States over the past decade, only 64, or fewer than one percent, originated from a South Asian language, even though a full one-fifth speaks these languages of the world's population."

Daisy Rockwell, translator of Geetanjali Shree's International Booker Prize-winning Tomb of Sand; Jason Grunebaum, chair and recipient of the PEN/Heim Translation Grant; Shahnaz Habib, translator of Benyamin's JCB Prize-winning Jasmine Days; Anton Hur, double-longlisted and shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022; Arunava Sinha, Ashoka University creative writing professor; Jeffrey Zuckerman, recipient of the 

Until the winner is announced next week, here's a peek at the shortlisted writers, translators, and works:

• The Kettle-Drum and Other Stories (2016) by Siddique Alam, translated from Urdu by Musharraf Ali Farooqi

• This Village Doesn't Exist (2016) by Amit Dutta, translated from Hindi by Vaibhav Sharma

•  Somewhere It's Three O'Clock Right Now (2019) by Appadurai Muttulingam, translated from Sri Lankan Tamil by Thila Varghese

• Raasa Leela (2006) by Charu Nivedita, translated from Tamil by Nandini Krishnan

• Alpha-Beta-Gamma (2022) by Nasera Sharma, translated from Hindi by Akshaj Awasthi

• Save Me From My Friends (1928) by Sajjad Haider Yaldram, translated from Urdu by Nandini Krishnan and Jaweeda Habeeb.

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