Tahmima's "The Good Muslim" shortlisted

Bangladesh's Tahmima Anam and three Indian writers are among six authors who have been shortlisted for the US$50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature given to the best novel thematically linked to the South Asian region.
India's Jeet Thayil's "Narcopolis", Uday Prakash's "The Walls of Delhi" and Amitav Ghosh's "River of Smoke" are on the shortlist alongside Tahmima's "The Good Muslim".
The two other writers are from Pakistan--Jamil Ahmad (The Wandering Falcon) and Mohammed Hanif (Our Lady of Alice Bhatti).
The shortlist was announced at the May Fair Hotel in London on Tuesday evening. The final prize is due for announcement at the Jaipur Literature Festival in January 2013.
"The six shortlisted books from different countries represent the diversity of South Asian fiction in terms of theme as well as idiom," said K Satchidanandan, who chaired the jury for the prize.
"We were looking for works which are thematically fresh, stylistically innovative and are a definitive contribution to novel as a genre," he said.
The shortlist is a choice from 16 novels longlisted for the prize in October.