Ubud partners with DSC Prize for South Asian Literature

23 June 2014 Books+Publishing

The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival has partnered with the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. ‘The partnership will commence with Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2014, and will involve the commitment to bring each year’s winner to the Festival in Ubud, Bali,’ said the festival in a statement. ‘In 2014 we will warmly welcome from India acclaimed author Cyrus Mistry who won the DSC Prize 2014.’ Mistry’s novel Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer, which won the US$50,000 (A$10,596) award, ‘is a moving account of tragic love affair involving the near-invisible community of Parsi corpse bearers whose job it is to carry bodies of the deceased to the Towers of Silence’. The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature was founded in 2010 and is open to authors of any ethnicity or nationality writing about South Asia and its people.

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