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Author-journalist Tarun J. Tejpal has moved one step closer to winning France’s prestigious Prix Femina Etranger award for the best foreign novel with his debut work making it to a shortlist of eight. The award, which has never been won by an Indian writer till now, involves a rigorous 11-member jury process that lasts for several months until the declaration of the winner in November and four selection lists. Tejpal, who edits the weekly newsmagazine Tehelka, had earlier been longlisted for his novel Loin De Chandigarh (Far From Chandigarh), which is the French translation of his The Alchemy of Desire in English, along with 13 other authors. The announcement that it had made the shortlist of eight came last week. Among the authors who had fallen off the list are Peter Carey, Annie Proulx and Colm Toibin, whose The Master was shortlisted for the Booker last year. Authors still in the running along with Tejpal are Allan Hollinghurst, Joyce Carol Oates, Cynthia Ozick, Russell Banks, Bernardo Carvalho, Nuala O’Faolain and Steven Carroll. The Prix Femina was established in 1904, and the foreign novel category was added in 1985. Loin De Chandigarh
was released this month in France to rave reviews and is going into its
third reprint. The novel is also being published in other languages such
as Italian, Greek, Polish and Hindi. — IANS |
