Indian-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri won Asia’s richest literary prize for her novel The Lowland at the Jaipur literature festival.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist beat four other shortlisted writers to the US$50,000 (RM179,200) DSC award for South Asian fiction, with a work that was described by chair of judges Keki N. Daruwalla as “a superb novel written in restrained prose with moments of true lyricism”, written “by a writer at the height of her powers”.
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